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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2003-02-04 21:30:42
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"Timothy Legge" <tim...@us...> writes: > > Good news, bad news. I have managed to reproduce the problem on a k8 > > system, > > so it is not a 486 problem. Probably something to do interactions > > with the old award BIOS core, which it appears my reference system is > > using... > > That is good news. I will confirm the bios. Unfortunately it was a false positive. I had a bootloader in front of etherboot and it was providing a broken IDT (interrupt descriptor table) to etherboot. And this caused the interrupts to fail, when they happened. This is not your problem because 5.0.x would have failed under these conditions as well. I do have a 486 at home (but it's power supply is failing) if I can get it to boot I will see if I can reproduce this problem there. Eric |
