On 27 Sep, Anant Kabra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a stock 2.3.18 kernel, which seems to
> work
> fine on my machine.
>
> But I tried the ac patched kernels and they fail to
> boot on my machine. The problem is that the ac patched
> kernels fail to boot on my machine. After typing
> "linux" on lilo, the computer says uncompressing
> kernel, then booting from kernel, and then just hangs.
> No more output, just the two lines. On the other hand,
> the stock 2.3.18 kernel seems to work perfectly.
>
> I had the problem with ac7, so I waited for ac8 and
> then ac9. All had the same problem. So I tried to find
> out when the problem started. I started with ac1, and
> didn't have to go far, because the problem started
> with
> this first ac patch.
>
> I have a AMD K6-III on a MVP VIA-3 MB, and realtek
> 8029
> NIC. My config file is included below. The same config
> file works with the stock kernel.
>
> Is anyone experiencing this problem? If not, then
> could
> anyone tell me how to diagnose the problem? If you
> need
> more information, let me know.
>
> thanks,
> Anant
> PS : Please send reply to:
>
> anantk@yahoo.com
> Here is my .config
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> #
> CONFIG_X86=y
> CONFIG_ISA=y
>
> #
> # Code maturity level options
> #
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
>
> #
> # Processor type and features
> #
> # CONFIG_M386 is not set
> # CONFIG_M486 is not set
> # CONFIG_M586 is not set
> # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
> CONFIG_M686=y
> # CONFIG_MK7 is not set
> CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
> CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
> CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
> CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
> CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
> CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
> CONFIG_1GB=y
> # CONFIG_2GB is not set
> # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
> # CONFIG_MTRR is not set
> # CONFIG_SMP is not set
>
Afaik the correct processor type for a K6 + K6-II + K6-III is
"Pentium/K6/TSC" (CONFIG_M586TSC)
My K6-III works good with this setting.
Georg
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