Subject: Re: Problems making 1.2G boot on an HP Pavilion 8140
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Jeff Northon <jeffo@sasquatch.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/06/1997 19:50:04
How much memory?
SCSI or EIDE?
Origional or the New recipe?


On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Michael Graff wrote:

> 
> I have one of these critters at hand (200Mhz pentathing with mmx)
> and 1.2G crashes while rebooting every time.  1.2.1 will boot without a
> problem, but the network card (de) uses revision 2.2 of the chip, and
> 1.2.1 can't talk to it correctly, so I can't get it on the net with 1.2.1.
> 
> I have DDB installed in the kernel.  However, "boot -sd" will not pause
> before running the kernel.
> 
> I think it is crashing right after printing out the real memory in the
> system (but it is possible something else is printed but the display
> resets too fast...) but I know nothing about the memory configuration
> or VM subsystem in general.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> --Michael
>