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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 23:43:05 +0100 (BST)

> but even if I compile a 2.0.30+pre-patch-7 or even a 2.0.29 or 2.0.27
> kernel on another machine and then use that kernel on the 486DX-100
> machine
>
> tar -xvzf linux-2.0.30.tar.gz
>
> still locks the whole machine up solid.

Sounds like the hardware. A solid lock sounds more like an interrupt
controller or IDE problem than anything else, but you might want to try
heavy I/O low CPU tasks (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/zero), and high CPU/memory
low disk usage stuff and see what dies

> 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 :-(

Perhaps you should go meet a different PC/104 manufacturer.