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Linux on Tandy 2500 SX/33 reboots computer during startup

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First post, by irate.overlord

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I have a Tandy 2500 SX/33 that I am trying linux with. It is a 386 SX 33 with 10 MB of RAM. I have tried both muLinux and tomsrtbt and they both reboot the computer immediately after probing disk drives (even if there are no drives other than a floppy connected). The last four lines the boot process shows the following:

loop: registered device at major 7
hd1: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
hda: WDC AC1210F, ATA DISK device
hde: probing with STATUS(0xb6) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xff)

Immediately after that the screen blanks and the BIOS startup messages are displayed. The messages displayed are identical for both muLinux and tomsrtbt. Does anyone know why this is happening or what the computer is doing at this point? I would really like to get this working so I can play around with linux on 386.

Reply 1 of 3, by lolo799

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At the tomsrtbt Lilo prompt, write:
bz2bzImage hda=noprobe

Does it change anything?

A bit unrelated, but you could try the QNX demo disks on your machine, they're quite cool if you have a supported network card or a modem.

Last edited by lolo799 on 2018-05-05, 19:03. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 2 of 3, by mrau

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what linux is this?

Reply 3 of 3, by lolo799

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mrau wrote:

what linux is this?

The ones irate.overlord tried?
mulinux uses the 2.0.36 kernel and tomsrtbt the 2.2.20

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