Hello, Nikolai! fikin schrieb:
Well, the CD isn't broken, Nikolai? it is ok. this is most peculiar indeed.
i've spent quite some time with this, basically booting, trying various options and again. also i was testing with another motherboard: via kt333 (featuring vt8233 chipset).
first error comes only under epia motherboard. and the bazaar think is that occasionally it would work fine. no explanations on my side.
second error is a due to failed bunziping of the kernel tar (which btw does not alter setup's exit status, errors are only mentioned in the log file).
Did you check your memory with memtest86? Please post the dmesg output of the failing kernel.
this error is reproducible reliably on both motherboards. no exceptions. if it wasn't for qemu i'd claim a broken tar file is used.
I just tried a standard CRUX-2.2 once within qemu... about a year ago. It just worked.
is there something special about via support in crux installation kernel?
There is no intention to do something special there. It's just a plain vanilla kernel, configured for some more or less standard i686(i585) configurations. Your EPIA M might not be standard enough for that case. IIRC there are some config options for some VIA Cx CPU's. As mentioned, I would try the latest kernel. Use a minimum configuration and post the dmesg output to the list if possible. I (or you) can also check with some guys at the linux kernel mailing list (LKML) if you are running into troubles with a current kernel. [10mins later] Okay, I checked some list archives (Note: This information is second hand, YMMV): - There are patched -epia kernels out there... so there is something special. - Some VIA CPUs are detected as i686 CPUs which is basically fine because they have the i.e. 3dnow and mmx instructions, however they are missing the "cmov" instructions, which might also get used by the glibc... The following compile options should be fine for "VIA-Boards", (I think that should read "VIA-CPUs"): CFLAGS="-march=i586 -m3dnow -mmmx -Os -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" - Try the kernel options: apm=off and acpi=off - see: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-08/2745.html So your system seems to be indeed special and needs some manual work to get it running if you want to use a i686 distro. And fixing your kernel might not fix your system, if you have your binaries using some stuff your CPU can't deal with. (Maybe the CRUX-2.3-i586 isn't i586'ish enough?) For further reference, see: http://witch.muensterland.org/stories/27.html Regards, -- Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm-technology.com Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19