Hi everybody, I am having the following problem in getting Amithlon to run on a second PC I own at home (a P4 @2.4Ghz) : this has an on-board GFX card, a basic VGA/EGA I guess: I have installed a spare GEForce2 MX400 which does work correctly under Windows XP. This card has been simply installed on the main mother-board, without making any adjustment at BIOS level to have the first on-board GFX card disabled (I think this is done automatically). I have only been able to run Amithlon on this second PC with the emubox.gz kernel, while on the first PC (a P3 @733 Mhz) my setup was as to use newemubox instead because I wanted to use the full GFX capabilities of the GeForce 2. On top of that it appears that by using emubox I loose the serial ports (I copied over the complete AMIGA environment from my first PC to the second one) and while I can use GENESIS through amithlon1_com device on the first PC, GENESIS cannot properly initialise this device on the second one. I'm therefore unable to use INTERNET and Email on this setup. By running "loadlin ..." with console_level=4 for diagnostic purposes, I found that at a certain point the system gets halted with a message like this:
esafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0x50000000
PCI: device 00.1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
kernel panic: cannot mount VFS. Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
The message regarding the video memory shows up even on my first PC but the boot procedure goes on and I can get the entire Amithlon environment up and running.
By booting Amithlon with different configurations, such as "loadlin @SYSLINUX.cfg", therefore with different defaults I got instead different messages relating to the presence of a DVD-ROM that could not be properly mounted.
Apart from that, I think that the same configuration used in the first PC should run even on the second one, therefore thorugh newemubox rather than emubox.
Anyone has any clue as to what could be the problem?
Many thanks and regards for your ideas.
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