Ronald G Minnich writes: 

> can you take the identical kernel, boot with the normal bios, and show us
> the output? this could be really helpful.
 

ok, here it goes: 

this is dmesg for normal bios, kernel 2.4.7: 

Linux version 2.4.7 (root@qis1) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 
7.0)) #13 Tue Aug 28 08:54:29 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000077f0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000077f0000 - 00000000077f3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000077f3000 - 0000000007800000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 30704
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 26608 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=lin ro root=306 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1002.274 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1998.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 117936k/122816k available (1469k kernel code, 4496k reserved, 504k 
data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb370, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v1.8
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20010615]
ACPI: Subsystem enabled
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xc8007000, size 8192k
vesafb: mode is 640x480x8, linelength=640, pages=24
vesafb: protected mode interface info at cbbc:0004
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ 
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
block: queued sectors max/low 78192kB/26064kB, 256 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS730
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD200EB-00BHF0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63, (U)DMA
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.3
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc8808000, 00:d0:09:d0:30:d1, IRQ 11
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20000928 on minor 63
es1371: version v0.30 time 21:13:23 Aug 27 2001
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
 options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: :USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
ip_conntrack (959 buckets, 7672 max)
ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. 


this is dmesg for boot with DoC, 2.4.7 patched with patch-2.4.7-SiS: 

Linux version 2.4.7 (root@qis) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 
7.0)) #1 Tue Aug 28 11:17:59 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007700000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 30464
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 26368 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 995.569 MHz processor.
Console: colour EGA 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1985.74 BogoMIPS
Memory: 117776k/121856k available (908k kernel code, 3692k reserved, 310k 
data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
SiS pirq: advanced IDE/ACPI/DAQ mapping not yet implemented
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:01.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:0d.0
 got res[2400:24ff] for resource 0 of Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
 got res[2800:28ff] for resource 0 of Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Starting kswapd v1.8
sisfb_lite: $Id: linux-2.4.7-sis.patch,v 1.1 2001/07/27 07:56:14 ollie Exp $
sisfb_lite: framebuffer at 0x90000000, mapped to 0xc8000000, size 8192 KB
sisfb_lite: 2D Memory Clock = 100226 KHz
sisfb_lite: 3D Memory Clock = 100226 KHz
sisfb_lite: Turned on MTRR Write Combine for framebuffer
sisfb_lite: Use 64KB off-screen memory for Turbo Queue
sisfb_lite: Video Dot Clock =  25255 KHz
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ 
SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:01.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.1
block: queued sectors max/low 78141kB/26047kB, 256 slots per queue
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
SiS pirq: advanced IDE/ACPI/DAQ mapping not yet implemented
advanced SiS pirq mapping not yet implemented
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try using 
pci=biosirq.
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS730
SIS5513: LINUXBIOS, so Jammed the enable on!
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2040-0x2047, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
SIS5513: LINUXBIOS, so Jammed the enable on!
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2048-0x204f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hd0: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
jamming drive present for hda
hda: WDC WD200EB-00BHF0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [2434/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.3
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc8822000, 00:d0:09:d0:30:d1, IRQ 11
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451 PCI Audio, version 0.14.8, 11:22:38 Aug 28 
2001
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:01.4
trident: SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0x2100, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4326 (Unknown)
M-Systems DiskOnChip driver. (C) 1999 Machine Vision Holdings, Inc.
usb.c: registered new driver hub
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. 


Nikolai

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