Re: Pentium II boot failure

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jan 2, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:

> Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I suggested the same thing. But I'd really rather have someone who
> > understands the PC side to make such changes. I don't have the
> > equipment or the interest to rework the PC code. This patch has almost
> > no impact on the PC side; sharing the code will be more invasive.
>
> Ok. I can do that, no problem.  In that case, please don't move the
> function out of kern/main.c but just write the PPC parts.  In that
> case breaking the PC port is not a problem because I will immediately
> start fixing.  I can apply the patches short after each other so there
> will not be any problem.

I pulled a Pentium II out of the closet for testing, but unfortunately 
even stock CVS failed to boot to the GRUB prompt. I did a build, then
        ./grub-mkimage -d . -o image *.mod
        dd if=image of=/dev/fd0
        reboot
That should work, right? This system just hangs with nothing on the 
screen except for the last BIOS messages, and the floppy light goes 
off. The same thing happens when I use kernel.img without adding 
modules.

At least I could compile-test... I hope to send the updated patch out 
in a few minutes.

-Hollis