How to make Pentium 133 work with 2.6.8 kernel?

[Jeffrey Austen <jausten@tntech.edu>]

We have a Dell Dimension XPS P133c which works fine with a
2.4.27-586tsc kernel but does not work with the 2.6.8-386
or 2.6.8-686 kernel. When booting with the 2.6.8 kernel
the messages produced are
   root ...
   kernel ...
   initrd ...
then the system hangs. The system information is below.
Should one of the 2.6.8 kernels work with this system?
What needs to be done to get it to work with 2.6.8?

Thanks.
Jeff

The installed kernels are
  kernel-image-2.4.27-3-586tsc
  kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386
and the boot loader is grub.

$ cat /etc/debian_version
3.1

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 2
model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping        : 11
cpu MHz         : 132.958
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 265.42

$ dpkg -l | grep kernel
ii  iptables       1.2.11-10      Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables
administration to
ii  kernel-image-2 101sarge1      Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on
Pentiu
ii  kernel-image-2 2.4.27-10sarge Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27
on Pen
ii  kernel-image-2 101sarge1      Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on
386.
ii  kernel-image-2 2.6.8-16sarge6 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8
on 386.
ii  linux-kernel-h 2.5.999-test7- Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii  lm-sensors-2.4 2.9.1-1sarge3  kernel drivers to read
temperature/voltage/f
ii  module-init-to 3.2-pre1-2     tools for managing Linux kernel
modules