[ale] broken kernel question

[aleach at cc.gatech.edu (Alfred Grahame Leach)]

OK, the kernel build was *MUCH* faster this time (<2hrs), but upon boot 
(from a floppy - I used make zdisk) Linux output

AX:0212
BX:0C00
CX:0B01
DX:0000
1007

in a seemingly infinite loop...  Weird.  Any ideas what went wrong?  I've 
had lots of trouble with this machine (things like being unable to 
successfully untar a kernel source tar file) - any chance that there's 
something strange about it that's causing a problem (instead of my 
ineptitude!)?  It's got lots of stuff built onto the motherboard - bus 
fmouse, video, IDE drive controller, etc.  Could any of this make Linux 
choke?

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