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Hi, I am currently having problems with installation/booting of Slackware Professional Linux v2.3 while loading the RAMDISK (i.e. Child xxx died with code ff00). Has anyone successfully got LINUX to work on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 Triton based PCI board? If so, what version of Linux? Is there anything particular I should be wary of? I have had no problems with DOS/Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or Windows 95. System: Pentium 100 w/ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 (Triton Chipset/256K cache) BIOS version 1.03 Panasonic 4x IDE CD ROM 16 MB EDO Ram 1.2 Gig Western Digital HD (Mode 3) Stealth 64 VRAM Video PCI with 2MB VRAM Integrated I/O with 4 HDD support (2 Channel IRQ 14/15) Logitech Soundman Wave (Sound Blaster Pro Compatible/Wave Table Midi) Monochrome Card (for debugging) 3Com Etherlink II (ethernet/BNC-3C503 8-bit) Error occurs under the following conditions: 1) Using 'idecd' boot image (also occurs with generic ide boot image) 2) Use ramdisk hda=2484,16,63 hdc=cdrom If I just use default settings (i.e. don't specify ramdisk) it only finds my hard drive. In either case, I still have problem. 3) Upon loading the ramdisk, things appear to be fine until it starts to get 'Child xxxx died with code ff00' errors after the 'RAMDISK: Loading 1440 blocks into Ram Disk' message. I believe the XXXX values start around 5000 and continue. 4) The only strange thing I seem to notice in boot up is the following: 'Unknown PCI Device PCVendor id=3 PC Device Id = 88F0' Contact potter at cao-VLSI.IBP.FR with /PROC/PCI This however is just a warning and things continue fine until RAMDISK problem. 5) I also plan on using the 'umsds144' root disk but I never get that far. Thanks, Guy Kellam gkellam at us.oracle.com
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