Re: 2.4.12 on Pentium?

["Mark Staudinger" <mark@staudinger.net>]

John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net> said:

> One common failure reason is selecting the wrong processor type. I
> suggest starting with a plain vanilla i386 build and see what happens.
> 
> john

That's the first thing I looked at... and my original message references 
that.  I've tried Pentium Classic, MMX, and 386.  No such luck.

Thanks....

> 
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:55:58 -0000, "Mark Staudinger"
> <mark@staudinger.net> wrote:
> 
> >"Drew P. Vogel" <dvogel@intercarve.net> said:
> >
> >> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mark Staudinger wrote:
> >> 
> >> >
> >> >Is there any known problem with running kernel 2.4.12 on a P54/P55 CPU? 
 
> >I'm
> >> >unable to get a 2.4.12 kernel to boot on a pentium class machine, 
> >regardless
> >> >of what I choose for the "Processor Family" support in the config.
> >> >
> >> >A similar (if not identical) config of kernel 2.4.5 works just fine, 
even 
> >if
> >> >compiled for 686/Celeron processor family.
> >> 
> >> copy the .config from the 2.4.5 directory and do a 'make oldconfig' just
> >> to be sure.
> >> 
> >> --Drew Vogel
> >
> >Done.  Still the same symptom (reset during kernel load). I take it this 
isn't 
> >a known problem then?
> >
> >-=Mark
> >
> >
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