Re: Why the heck does 'tar -xvzf linux-2.0.{30,27,29}.tar.gz' lock up my 486??

Jeff Wiegley (jeff@w3-design.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:45:09 -0700


Mike Kilburn wrote:
>
> Jeff Wiegley <jeff@w3-design.com> wrote:
>
> > PC/104 company tomorrow to see if linux will run on there hardware but
> > it'll be a waste of my time if linux just locks up again. (And it will
> > look bad for linux :-(
>
> Rather it will look bad for their hardware. Try loading Win NT and see
> if you have problems.

Not capable of NT a meesly 486-100 it will struggle. But Win95 runs
without
locking up.

>
> I think Linux has reached the point where you can tell them they need
> to look at it if they want their hardware to run with Linux. There
> are plenty of PC/104 SBCs that run Linux fine.

But so far I haven't been able to find ones that reliably support
PCMCIA PC/104 boards. Ampro's sure doesn't and Advanced Digital Logic
also has card recognition problems under linux but they would only
let me spend a few hours this afternoon on their hardware.

everybody elses stuff isn't PC/104, it is usually a non standard size
board and doesn't fit my application. and there aren't that many PC/104
PCMCIA boards out there anyways.

>
> Maybe play with some of the cache or shadow options. I had a PC once
> that locked up if I had system shadow RAM *disabled* - quite weird.

yea, I've been through all that for the last 3 months tthat I've had
this
Ampro piece of garbage.

linux mem=4M (when I have 8) seems to help but it may just be a
coincidence since I've been able to get past this lock up problem in
the past with out it. (Don't know how or why just that the lockup
stopped.

- Jeff

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