problems on crusoe-based laptop

problems on crusoe-based laptop

[Tibor Veres]

I'm trying to install linux to a toshiba libretto l5 (transmeta crusoe
TM5800). 

I have no cd or floppy, I boot over the network with intel pxe bootrom..
DHCP works, after stripping down the kernel to <512k, the kernel loads
too, but I get the following error message: 

AX: 0205
BX: 0200
CX: 0020
DX: 0000.
8000

I tryed with the following configurations:
version: 2.4.18, 2.4.17
toshiba laptop support: on/off
pci access mode: direct/bios/both
cpu: 386/crusoe
everything else turned off except for IDE and ext2

What does the error message mean? What should I do to make it boot.


Please CC to my address too.

Re: problems on crusoe-based laptop

[Richard B. Johnson]

On 23 Jul 2002, Tibor Veres wrote:

> I'm trying to install linux to a toshiba libretto l5 (transmeta crusoe
> TM5800). 
> 
> I have no cd or floppy, I boot over the network with intel pxe bootrom..
> DHCP works, after stripping down the kernel to <512k, the kernel loads
> too, but I get the following error message: 
> 

> AX: 0205
       | |_______ 5 sectors
       |_________ Read command

> BX: 0200
         |_______ Buffer is at offset 0x200       
> CX: 0020
       | |_______ Sector number 0x20
       |_________ Track  number 0
> DX: 0000.
       |_________ Drive 0 (Floppy disk 0)
> 8000
   | |___________ NR sectors read (0)
   |_____________ Reason (no device or no interrupt)
> 


Well it's trying to read from a floppy that doesn't exist. The
read code is from the boot-loader that is usually executed by
LILO (wrong boot-code for network booting).


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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