[plug] Strange stuff with antique hardware

[Leon Brooks]

David Campbell wrote:
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the following:

> a) Debian floppy taking 3 mintues to load a kernel
> b) LILO fails at "LI", even with "linear" option

Isn't "compact" the option you want for faster loading (i.e. 1/4 sec on
P233MMX+4G3 instead of 1/2 sec, whoopee.)? But even more likely to fail.

> This is for the old 33DX486 I mention earlier. I am about to try another
> mainboard and a different IO card (to solve the floppy problem).

If you want another 486DX33 MB, just say so.

> I configured the HDD on a P166, transplanted the drive and kept the same
> HDD settings. I can boot into Linux with the "rescue" floppy and poke around
> but with such a slow boot time it is a pain.

> According to the docs the "LI" failure is either bad disk geometry or moving
> the boot.b file. I know that I haven't touched boot.b so there is something
> strange going on here.

You've re-run lilo on the 486 box?

> "There is no such thing as a bug in the Linux 2.1.x kernels
> Consider it as a request from the enlightened for you to brush
> up on your C programming and help improve the kernel."

"There is no such thing as a bug in Windows 9[58]. Consider it as
 a request from the unenlightened for you to brush up on your
 disassembly skills and help improve the OS."

Why a blue screen? Wouldn't a red (ie embarrassed and stopped) screen be
more honest?