Re: 1.3.67-8 problems on 486SX

Andreas Kostyrka (andreas@medman.ag.or.at)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:35:55 +0100 (MET)


On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Hynek Med wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an UMC 486SX/40 based motherboard (I know it's weird), and the
> kernels 1.3.67 and 1.3.68 don't work on it, when compiled with "processor
> type 486" (I tried both ELF and a.out, gcc 2.7.0 and 2.6.3). They behave
> very funny, up to the message "VFS mounted root" it works as usual, and
> from then on I can only single-step trace the booting process with
> ctrl-alt-del. (I.e., after each pressing of ctrl-alt-del one command
> executes, if I don't press anything, nothing happens.)
Perhaps it's not a TRUE 486? Then you have to compile it for a TRUE 386?
>
> When I used "processor type 386", it works fine. Well, fine. As I write
> this, I see that on the 1.3.67 ps xua dies with Floating point exception..
> I think the new kernels will need some more twiddling in regard of 486SX
> processors..
Have you got procps-0.99?

Andreas

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