[KLUG Members] Re: Kernel Hangs

[Adam Williams]

> > > > > while booting (smoothwall express), the kernel hangs at
> > > > > Checking "hlt" instructions...
> > > > Sounds like bad hardware.
> > Man, there's a joke here, but new-found responsibility is preventing me
> > from making it.... aieee!
> I'd like to hear it... feeling left out.. =   )
> > > > > So, I added 'no-hlt' to the boot, and it hangs still, this time at
> > > > > Calabraiting delay loop... 59.0 BogoMips...
> > Hah! Higher up the chain! That's funny, in a bitter way. 59? That's an
> > old, old chip.
> > > > Have you tried this boot media in a different box?
> > > Yes, the media is good. Something else to point out, this machine boots
> > > windoze just fine. 

What Windows?  9x/ME doesn't count.  Windows may also contain some
chip-specific bug work-arounds;  Windows actually contains lots of
those.

> No problems with windoze. I have yet to get a linux distro running on
> it, I have a slack 3.5 disc laying around I'm gonna try. Come to think
> of it, I also have an old SuSE too (like 5 or 6 I think).

If you have an old enough boot media to have a 2.2.x kernel it would be
interesting to see if that would boot.  I had an odd-ball white box
machine that would run 2.2.x like a rock, but just went jiggy under
2.4.x (my solution involved a heave-ho and a dumpster).