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. Any help would be much appreciated, though I may just return the sucker. - Matt PS thanks for the emailed help, Michael K. Johnson |