The saga continues:
The saga continues. <quote who="Ken Caldwell"> > My current theory is that the compressed root filesystem is being read > into memory OK but the decompression is failing. Tomorrow I will move > the hard drive to another computer and do a base install then see if it > will work in the 386. Well I moved the Hard Drive and NIC over to another computer and installed a minimal debian distribution. That computer booted OK. I then moved the Hard Drive and NIC back to the 386 and tried to boot it. The boot proceeds normally (except for how long things take) untill init starts. The on screen error messages begin: INIT: version 2.84 booting Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz chld_handler(): Decompressor child was terminated by signal 11 /etc/init.d/rcS: line 74: 13 Segmentation fault mount -n /proc Activating Swap followed by many more seg faults. The following other facts were also gleaned from the kernel messages. The CPU does not honour the wp bit when in supervisor mode. 386/387 coupling is handled by the old IRQ13 error reporting. The cpu is subject to the popad bug. Ken
