Re: RH5.2 won't install on Cyrix
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:15:43 +0000 (GMT)
> it. Every time I attempt to run the installer from either a floppy or
> a bootable CD-ROM, it crashes and restarts the machine whenever it
> reaches the "second level setup" message. I have tried disabeling
> both extrnal and internal caches as well as Plug'n'Play BIOS support.
> Nothing worked. Could someone with a Cyrix 6x86 machine provice me
> with a good kernel with no SCSI suppot (I do not have SCSI)? I'd
> be very thankful.
That kernel image works with a Cyrix CPU. You won't be the first person
who had a lot of problems with the older Cyrix 6x86 chips though - they run
very hot, the earliest ones seem to have cache coherency bugs and the like.
Before jumping to conclusions though - what is the actual error it reports
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