From: jesq@coos.dartmouth.edu (Joseph Heye Killoran) Subject: Re: Linux 0.97 and fast 486: timing problem ? Date: 3 Aug 1992 00:35:48 GMT
jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>>Just thought I would add my voice to Nhut's:
>>My 486/33 does exactly the same thing. I didn't know that I could
>>boot at a lower speed, is that A BIOS option? (Not that it
>>would be a real solution anyway)
>>
>It sounds like there must be something else you have in common than
>just having a fast machine. I have a 486/33 with 256k cache, 8 MB
>memory, ISA motherboard and SCSI hard drives and have no problem.
>Are you both using IDE hard drives?
Yes we are both using IDE hard drives. Maybe this is a clue.
Incidently someone just posted saying that compliling with the scsi
stuff left in solved the problem for him. I just tried that
and in made no difference: it hangs right before printing out partion
data. Oh well.......0.96cpl2 will have to do for now.
Joseph Killoran - Norwich VT