Kernel 2.6 and the Epia M 10000 Motherboard

[David Woakes]

Hi Aaron

I haven't been able to boot from the Rescue CD without getting an 
instant reboot and no error messages.  I can boot a 2.6 Kernel compiled 
with the gcc compiler on my own machine with the vdso=0 option.

At present I think this is because the Kernel on the cdroms is compiled 
with another compiler, I used gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 
3.3.2-1).

I'm now running a FC1 with Kernel 2.4 on a 6000 board.  This also 
reboots immediatly when trying to boot from the FC2 Rescue disk.

When you initially run the CD up can you read what is displayed on the 
console ?  I cannot, but hit return presuming to get the default 
options, following which I get the reboot.

I'm presuming that the kernel/compiler is the issue since the test 2.6 
kernel distributed with FC1 caused the same instant reboot, but when 
recompiled with the same .config was OK.

Regards
David

Aaron Metzger wrote:
> David Woakes wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Does booting with vdso=0 help ?
>> What glibc do you have ?
>>
>>     Dave
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Yes! Adding vdso=0 allowed 2.6 to boot.  I didn't let it run all the 
>> way through.
>>
>> I have glibc-2.3.2-101.4 installed.
>>
>> David
> 
> 
> 
> David:
> 
> I also have a VIA M10000 and am trying to install Fedora Core 2.
> 
> I tried to follow your e-mail thread but couldn't determine if you were 
> ultimately successful with an unmodified Fedora Core 2 install disc1 
> from the public ISO images or if you had to construct a custom install.
> 
> At the boot prompt, I tried:
> 
>   linux vdso=0
> 
> with no success.
> 
> Is this the correct place to apply this modifier?
> 
> Did you have to do anything else to get the install started?
> 
> Thanks for any info that you can provide.
> 
> BTW:  Fedora Core 2 Test 3 installed without a problem on this same box.
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Metzger
> 
> 

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