On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:53:02PM +0200, ron jochems wrote:
> After reading this mail i've got a question. I've tried lot's of time to let
> an 'old' 486 with 16 mb talk linux. Until now i'm not very succesfull.
> With multiple distributions i've tried but unfortenately unsuccesfull.
> The problems arise at booting time, when the kernel itself is loaded. Almost
> al of the time, i get kernel panics. Booting from flop, cd or disk does not
> matter. all fail.
Hmmm, did you get any clues from the messages when it crashed? Like where
was it in the boot process, what did it just do and what would you expect
it to do next?
I've also got a Compaq 386 machine that has kernel problems when I try to
run Linux but it runs DOS just fine. But that's kindof uncommon with newer
machines.
I remember some problems with the OPTi chipset though. If you've got
one of those you might want to search the kernel development list
archives to see if you can find out what the fix was. I don't remember
but I remember it being discussed. Back before 2.0, when I could actually
read all the kernel development list messages daily. :-)
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