Le Mardi 18 Octobre 2005 23:17, Brad Campbell a écrit :
John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
And it was all a bogus trail.. It's *timer* related!
I made start_rtc_timer() fail (return -1) unconditionally, and voila it
boots first time every time, and any Image I throw at it..
So something in the win2k loader appears to be timing sensitive. I did try
the -win2k-hack for a lark, but that only had random results..
So there is an issue with the RTC handler on this machine by the looks..
RTC max freq is 1024, so it's not that.. further debugging required
If I remember correctly, issues have been raised in qemu about speedstep
enabled processors.
Could you could try to turn it off on your PIII-M ?