Messages in this thread | | | From | Robert Kaiser <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 on Cobalt hardware | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:20:00 +0100 |
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On Fre, 19 Jan 2001 you wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, RobertKaiser wrote: > > > On Thu Jan 18 16:30:30 2001 steve@navaho.co.uk wrote > > > Has anyone had any luck getting a 2.4 kernel to run on Cobalt x86 > > > hardware? It doesn't even seem to start (I get nothing on the screen from > > >t he kernel, it just sits there and does nothing). :( > > > > What processor does it use ? (386 or 486 perchance?) > > AMD K6 (so 586) - I was trying the i386 version of the kernel on it > though, if that's going to be a problem, I can try the 586 version...
I was asking because the 2.4.0 kernel has a bug that causes it to fail on 386 and 486 CPUs with the same symptoms as you described. I don't know much about the K6, so I can't tell whether it will fall into the same trap (I guess it won't).
Nevertheless, if you want to be sure, try the latest (pre8) patch from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/
that particular bug has been fixed in that version.
Good Luck
Rob
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