Helge Skrivervik

Thank you @ghaerr. It's strange I haven't run into this one before. After all, the XMS support is a fairly recent addition. Without XMS ELKS hangs every time I (say)...

> Yes, I got a bit spoiled myself with a default .config with XMS and 2880k disk support. I'm back to running 1440k and no XMS, so I'll see whether...

> I still have sys problems on the compaqs (MBR boot doesn't find partition boot), while the same works great on this other machine (40MHz 386SX). To be investigated. >...

Back to the `rm` hang problem: This is repeatable only on one particular machine, so I'm going after it in that setting. I was hoping it had to do with...

Thank you @ghaerr - > > Back to the rm hang problem > This is repeatable only on one particular machine, so I'm going after it in that setting >...

Update: This turns out to be a touch cookie indeed. Given that the problem appears on this particular hardware only, not on QEMU, not on the compaqs, it would be...

> Also, if those printks don't have arguments, just text, they have no effect. > So we have a stack pollution issue, a very elusive one: The printks can be...

Thank you @ghaerr - > Although not a for sure, we likely need to continue to look at the potential hardware incompatibility on your one system as the base cause,...

> Thank you @ghaerr. >  > I have reviewed the previous issues relating to the ELKS kernel crashing, or acting strangely, and haven't yet been able to correlate to...

> The actual issue itself seems to be evolving... > It is - with the addition and movement of printk's. > we know there's a kernel problem where the system...