Re: RE: Changes in hardware ?

where did you get the haret and zImage? they run in my 416 machine, and
also should work on yours. I don't think DELL has changed the hardware,
they must lose much money if the do that .

Klavs Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just bought a brand new X50 512MHz and has barely removed its plastic
> wrapping before attempting to boot a kernel on it. You know how it is ;-)...
>
> Reading the digest for the last month or so, I really did not expect any
> troubles booting the kernel. Boy, was I wrong.
> I simply can not get the kernel up and runing, all I get is a penguin with
> red eyes looking like a sunday hangover. Has tried all the different
> haret.exe's I could find, several zimages from the net and own builds.
> Nothing. No serial output (serial cable is good, tried it with a serial term
> program), no console, nada, nothing. All I can see when putting an
> oscilloscope on the serial out is the the UART appears to initialize, and
> haret's output on port 999 stops with "goodbye cruel world".
>
> So, the big question is : has Dell changed the hardware of the X50? Or does
> anyone have an idea of what to do next ?
>
> Klavs
>
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 15 2005 - 09:02:37 EDT