Thanks for your help, Bruce. (In reference to an earlier thread: how can anyone complain about a project leader who actually answers users' questions?)
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But with some experimenting, I discovered that telling the BIOS to > > disable both primary and secondary cache, I was able to get Linux to > > load, and all went well after that. > > Turn it back on now, and see if it boots from hard disk with the cache on. Nope. > ... This causes the kernel to die just after it starts because it reads > incorrect data out of the cache. If this is what is happening try the > "tecra" kernel, or build your own kernel as a "zImage" rather than > "bzImage". I built a zImage -- that worked! > > 3) What affect does not disabling shadow RAM? ... > > ... Second, if you have shadow RAM mapped over I/O devices (many > motherboards will do that if you ask them to), accesses to those devices > will not work. So if all the devices seem to work, does that mean I won't have any problem with the shadow RAM? Is there some way to be sure about this? > > Another curiosity: When I went to run fips to shrink the win95 partition, > > I found, instead of just one large partition, there were four partitions: > > The first was almost the full 2 GB, the second and third were empty (zero > > length), and the fourth was 4 MB, but of "unknown" type. ... > > That 4MB partition could be a boot manager partition, especially if you've > tried NT or have installed System Commander or its ilk. It might also be > for saving the system state when you suspend, but I'd expect it to be > bigger if that's the case. My Toshiba saves the state by continuing RAM > power at all times and does not use a disk partition for this. The machine came with Windows95; I didn't load any special boot manager. I also thought it might be for the system state, but I also decided it was too small (16 MB -> 4 MB partition??), and there's a Win95 file in hda1 that's for that purpose. I guess I'll try deleting it and see what happens! Thanks again. -David =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David S. Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
