Re: [debian-knoppix] Booting Knoppix on oldder hardware?
Klaus,
Thanks for the quick reply, I had no idea Knoppix came with support :-)
I went to duplicate the problem so I could give a better error report only to
find it boots now! I've no idea what happened. I messed about with it
trying various things and even got KDE to start ok (although it was very
slow). I thought this might be the problem since I've noticed a couple of
times if you type several cheatcodes on the bootline they don't all work (but
I haven't been able to reproduce this with any regularity either).
Anyhow, the only explanation I have is that since my first boot of Knoppix on
this machine (at Cyrix P150+ with 48mb) I've installed RH6.2 on the harddisk,
so now there is a swap partition and Knoppix is making use of it. If I can
get the problem to occur again I will give a more complete report.
Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions. I found the other ideas
of using ICEWM very nice too, I didn't think I could get a window manager
working so nicely on such an old machine, but it looks and works great.
/bill
On May 13, 2003 01:39 pm, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:47:50AM -0400, Bill wrote:
> > From what I can gather the kernel has been built for 686, not 586, so I
> > get
>
> The Kernel on the download version of KNoppix has been compiled in 368
> compatibility mode.
>
> > something about 'Pentium+ tcs instruction required' then a kernel fault.
>
> When/where do you get this error?
>
> > Would it be possible to supply supplying a second kernel for older
> > machines on the CD?
>
> The kernel on the CD is compiled to support the VERY OLD machines
> starting from i386.
>
> I may remove the FPU emulation support, though, to save some bytes on
> the el torito bootfloppy. So, it won't run anymore on a plain i386
> without an additional FPU (i486 and up should be OK).
>
> Regards
> -Klaus Knopper
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