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Andy,

> I recompiled the 2.0 kernel with a lot of things disabled (such as
> scsi and some scsi adapters, which probably shouldn't be on by
> default). That finally worked. But I do believe the 2.0-release
> GENERIC options file should be trimmed.

This is probably true.

> Are you describing a cobalt bootstrap or i386?

Yep, this is the MIPS Cobalt Qube2 I'm talking about.

> I think the cobalt firmware wants to find a file called
> vmlinux.gz on an ext2 filesystem... There's not outwardly obvious
> bootloaders that I know about on this hardware. Or is there?

There is definately a bootloader or two at work, here. See the related 
post by Dale Smith.

The problem with the old boot loader was that it was loading the 
secondary boot loader too high in memory, and falling off the end of my 
16MB system memory. Jumping to the boot loader made the Qube2 go 
cross-eyed and it would lock-up on startup.

Changing the loader's starting address to lower than 16MB fixed the problem.

-chris


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