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## 2.1.43 kernel has TX

  Forum: Device Drivers
  Re: INTEL 430 TX- DMA/33 DRIVERS (Niko)
  Keywords: INTEL 430TX PCI K6
  Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:12:14 GMT
  From: Matthew Prete <matthew@brassrat.com>

I have the Iwill motherboard with TX chipset (and a K6, ultrawide SCSI, and SDRAM). When I tried to boot or install RedHat 4.2, the system would dump a bunch of error messages about "unknown PCI device" then it would reboot. So, I built the 2.1.43 kernel with modules and the new tools 'n libs. Now the system doesn't print the error messages so I guess I have the TX chipset in the kernel, but it still reboots in the same place. Best I can tell, it's during the "Calibrating delay loop.." phase. I've stripped the system down to a kernel on a floppy and it still reboots early in the boot. This same .43 kernel boots a Cyrix 166 VX chipset motherboard just fine. Two other notes: (1) this K6-TX system boots Win95 just fine. The PnP stuff barks about the PCI-ISA bridge, but floppies were included so I presume that those drivers are in there. (2) I have successfully booted linux on this system twice. The very first time I was running setup and got as far as the fdisk, then I decided to start over and it would not come up again after that. Then a week later (after many other failed attempts) I tried booting an already configured linux from a SCSI drive, it booted (400 BogoMIPs!) and I got to poke around a bit. Then, I shut down so I could change the drive order, and it would not come up again and it hasn't since. Any help would be much appreciated, though I may just return the sucker. - Matt PS thanks for the emailed help, Michael K. Johnson