Re: Can't boot target?

Be sure to build the kernel with the correct processor type ("Pentium").
As I recall, the default is PII or PIII.

Jerry

Ron Parise wrote:

>
> I am trying to learn how to use qplus but have not had any success
> booting my target system. The devel system is a RedHat 8.0 system.
> The target is a generic 100MHz Pentium with 48MB memory, a video
> card, 3c509 network card, and floppy.
> The build seems to proceed cleanly. I am trying to deploy using an initrd
> as the root file system. Etherboot (5.2.2) boots (from a floppy),
> gets an ip address, and
> the qplusp.etherboot filename. It then transfers the file  (or seems to).
>
> I get the following output on the video console and then the target 
> system
> just dies.
>
> <millions of dots deleted>..............................
> ........................................done
> mknbi-1.4.3/first32.c (GPL)
> Top of ramdisk is 0x03000000
> Ramdisk at 0x02D4F000, size 0x002B1000
>
> At this point it just stops forever. It doesn't execute the boot file 
> and is just
> dead.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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