From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: Linux on a Microchannel box Date: 14 Sep 1992 17:42:43 GMT
dan@systech.com (Dan Gill) writes:
: Hello linux gurus,
:
: I have downloaded linux, or at least enough to get started. It boots
: up just great on a ISA-bus pc, but if I try it on a NCR 486/25
: MicroChannel box, it will not complete the boot sequence. It loads
: the bootimage from floppy, and then never gets much past where it displays
: the int levels of com ports.
(how do you get MCA on a non IBM machine, I thought it was a proporitry
standard)
:
: My question:
:
: Is the problem the fact that I'm trying to run on a MCA box?
Yes, even if it will bootup fully, then linux will not drive an MCA
HD controller.
So no HD.
(and a lack of docs in existence to write one)
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