Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tom Sightler" <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.27 unable to boot, 2.2.13 okay, and disk problem | Date | Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:26:14 -0500 |
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As far as I can find the Thinkpad 720 is an MCA based machine and the integrated controller are the old IBM ESDI variety, not IDE. You need to compile a kernel with MCA Support slected and the with PS/2 ESDI hard disk support and you should be able to get it to find a drive. For more information on Linux and the Thinkpad 720 see the MCA Linux homepage at www.dgmicro.com/mca although it appears to be down a the moment, a quick look on www.google.com for Linux, Thinkpad, 720 will give you the cached pages.
As for the problem with 2.3.27 not booting, all of my MCA machines fail to boot at the same spot with 2.3.27-28 as well, 2.3.26 still boots but reports the following:
Memory: 14476k/16384k available (0k kernel code, 0k reserved, 0k data, 0k init)
And while it boots up to a login things are VERY slow with tons of paging and eventually the VM starts killing everything off, I was lucky to get it shut down.
2.3.18 does not have this problem but 2.3.23 does. Looking back through the code there are a lot of changes to the bootmem code so I'm guessing these changes broke MCA. I haven't had time to look at it further but hope to soon if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
Later, Tom
----- Original Message ----- From: imel... <imel96@puspa.cs.ui.ac.id> To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 8:28 PM Subject: 2.3.27 unable to boot, 2.2.13 okay, and disk problem
> > > i tried to boot 2.3.27 on an ibm thinkpad 720 (486 sx), and froze > after the "now booting the kernel". > 2.2.13 boot just fine on the thinkpad, but i got another problem, > that is no harddisk detected by linux. tried all IDE drivers, but > no luck. > i'll have this machine for a few days, so if anybody want to try > something... > > btw, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY in Configure.help should be just > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD. > > > imel > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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