Jima wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, nick thompson wrote: >> You got to it first!!! ;p Just kidding... ;p Anyway, yeah if you could >> send me the kernel arguments, I would really appreciate it. > > Ultimately, the people who had it before me got to it first, at least > for the 2.4 series. (Feel free to shame yourselves if you'd like -- I'm > not outing you.) I had to make some minor adaptations for 2.6. > From my understanding, you no longer need memmap=exactmap with 2.6. > This system used (IIRC) 640K at 0M, 15M at 1M, and 624M at 16M with 2.4. With > 2.6, I'm successfully booting with only memmap=624M at 16M. I suspect, > then, that memmap=304M at 16M *might* work for you. Not sure about > dosci/dokeymap; I didn't need those with my stock Fedora kernels. > > Jima > Hmm. gentoo memmap=304M at 16M starts booting the kernel, but I still get: enter mode # or scan: 0 Ucompressing linux.. Ok, booting the kernel. ACPI: unable to locate RSDP ..mp bios bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-ABIC PCI:failed to allocate resource 1000000 at 42000000 for 0000:01:06.0 >>loading modules here it seems to freeze, though for a while at the beginning I can see the cdrom drive accessing the cd, same as before. anyway, I'll report back more successes/failures... :) nick "All unix, all the time." http://npt.ath.cx