> Anybody know if the kernel will boot up on an old 286 with a 486 upgrade?
>
Take your favorite kernel (zImage of bzImage) and copy it to a raw
floppy.
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /dev/fd0
Then try to boot your machine with it. It probably won't find any of
the devices, etc., certainly won't be able to mount the root file-
system, but if it comes up with some initialization stuff before
it panics trying to mount a non-existant fs, then it works!
If it says uncompressing linux and that's all... then it doesn't.
I take such a floppy to Computer Shows to see how machines work with
Linux. You can even see the BogoMIPS to help decide if it's worth
the effort to continue. Just a motherboard, floppy, and screen-card
will tell a lot.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.126 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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