[lug] Kernel 2.4.18 for C3-based board

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Wed May 29 18:38:47 MDT 2002


"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I recently installed RH 7.3 on a new Via board that I got.  Installation
> was fine and the board works well. ( Except for the XF86 4.2.0 trident
> driver over the RCA video output.  X with vesa works though. )  I did
> tell it to use lilo as the boot loader so that I could draw an image on
> the display at boot time.  I have not found out how to do something
> similar with grub.
> 
> Prior to making some minor changes to the kernel, I wanted to rebuild
> RH's default.  It builds with the steps listed below but fails while
> booting.  It starts with "Loading linux ........" then the machine
> reboots.  I suspect that I'm making a simple error but cannot figure out
> what.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Scott
...

By any chance is the cpu an Athlon? If so, i686 is guaranteed to fail,
you'd need i386 or Athlon I believe.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com



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