LYNX (2100A) anyone?

Felix von Leitner (leitner@math.fu-berlin.de)
Sat, 2 May 1998 14:18:51 +0200

I just found an unused 2100A in the basement of my company and I'd like
to install Linux on it. Unfortunately, this hardware does not seem to
be supported. So I tried to boot the other kernels and even got the
experimental sable kernel from gatekeeper (2100 sounds close enough),
but in every case the machine loaded the aboot loader but then froze. I
used the

boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"

and it froze in the aboot process. When I used

boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags load_ramdisk=1

it did a hard reset after the "now booting the kernel" message.
Interestingly, it also reboots now with the first command line.
Is there any chance for me to get Linux up and running on that machine?
I saw that in later 2.1.x kernels there is a constant defined for LYNX
machines, does that mean that I should try to cross-compile a kernel?

Felix