030914 ed tharp wrote:
>> i have now reassembled the box & tried it out.
>> 
>> it seems to be an improvement at the BIOS level:
>> it recognises the processor as 'AMD XP 2500+' (correctly)
>> & defaults the DRAM clock to  166 MHz  (previously it set it to  133 MHz ).
>> 
>> however, there's a new problem: Linux won't start!
>> i had installed Mdk 9.1 , which is still there of course,
>> & Lilo comes up properly & tries to boot the system,
>> but fails with a kernel panic, which is quite new (Linux was ok before).
>> the lines on the screen are as follows:
>> 
>>   Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
>>    at virtual address 00000000
>>   printing eip: c02360d0
>>   *pde = 00000000  Ooops: 0000
>> 
>> there follow a dozen lines of registers, call traces etc, then:
>> 
>>   <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>>   spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
>> 
>> (the last line occurs only some of the time:
>> it's the printer IRQ, but i haven't defined a printer on the box yet).
> did you reset the bios for no plug and play?

no.

> and did you try and run hard drake during boot up?

no.

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