On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:34:47PM +0000, Tom Oehser quoth:
->
-> > machine. I conjecture that some of Compaq's custom cruft is part of the
-> > problem.
-> >
-> > Since I don't need the 3c59x driver, is there any way I can disable it?
-> > Preferrably short of recompiling the kernel.
->
-> At the boot prompt, try:
->
-> boot: zImage reserve=0x300,32
Bingo. Thank you.
->
-> or similar, assuming you are right that the 3c59x is the problem, and not
-> that the _next_ thing is dying silently. Does the machine have a network
I did not think that was the problem, as the next message is the hard
drive check, and that works correctly for Red Hat 5.2, which has the
2.0.36 kernel.
Of course, there could be silent steps in between. But I don't know where
to go look for one.
-> card at all? Clone NE2000 cards are known to have bugs. If it has a
-> network card, try booting it with that removed to see if that is the
-> problem. The reserve= statement tells it not to probe a given range. 300
-> is just a guess...
There is an ne2000 at 0x300, and it runs just fine under RH 5.2. But
apparently not well enough to withstand the 3c59x probing.
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