Re: booting problems

[Mike808 <mike808@users.sourceforge.net>]

Danny Sauer wrote:
> I'm trying to boot a machine from a floppy, but failing.
> ...
> This is on a 486 board (AMD 486DX4/120 with PCI and 2 IDE channels, oh yeah),
> if that triggers any memories.

Check your distro and see if it is compiled for a PENTIUM (586) or higher.
Nothing you can do if your image is compiled for 586s and you try to run it
on a 486 and it hits a 586 instruction.

The other time I've seen this is when the hard disk wasn't partitioned in a
linux-friendly manner (i.e. no cyls under 1024), but I think recent lilos
and I am certain grub get around this older limitation.

If you build your own kernel, make sure you change the CPU type to 386/486
when you compile it.

I think RedHat has some pre-built kernel images, but I don't know if they
are shipping 386/486 images along with the MP kernels.

Mike808/
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