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Rob Dale wrote:
> Division by Zero wrote:
> >
> > > What actually appears to be happening is that Linux is being optimised
> > > more and more to the behavior of specific processors and chipsets.
> > > (Closer to the metal.) While this is the only way to get optimal
> > > performance out of the new features offered by the latest processors
> > > and chipsets, there is a great danger in this --- we may be painting
> > > ourselves into a corner where Linux is totally unusable on the next
> > > generation of cheap off-the-shelf computers. (I notice more and more
> > > usenet articles complaining about installation disks unable to boot on
> > > the latest computers (K6-2/300-350 3DX lately --- and no helpful
> > > followup articles posted that I have noticed so far.)
> >
> > I agree completely. I was humiliated when the Redhat installation disk
> > (2.0.34 I believe) would not boot on one of the machines we were selling
> > to a customer. We ended up putting NT instead.
> > The machine was a Packard Bell dual P333's (actually it had one in
> > at the time of trying to install, other hadn't arrived yet), 27 GIG
> > SCSI drives, 640 MB ram, totally hot-swap able....but linux wouldn't
> > boot!!!
>
> Not trying to start a dist war...
>
> But, that might be a Redhat problem. I have been unsuccessful
> in getting Redhat to run on any of my 6 machines.
> Yet, Slackware (which I currently run), Debian, and Caldera
> all work fine.
>
> --
> Robert Dale
Installing from the hard disk has always failed for me, however
network and CD-ROM installs still work. Redhat just doesn't
seem very interested in fixing the install from hard disk, as it's
a signal 11 and they hide behind "bad hardware", although it's
completely reproducible...
Joseph Malicki
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