Re: lilo boot problem

[Jeff Sutherland <jeffs@accelent.com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:41:07PM +0100, morgad wrote:
> 
> this does the loading................................................
> and then stops
> 
> make zdisk has always worked, so what have i done different ?
> 
> best regards
> dave morgan

Try compiling the kernel for a lower grade (i.e., 486) processor.  I got
bit bad by this when moving up to the 2.4 series.  If the processor is
set to Pentium-II and you've only got, say, a Pentium-mmx, it will hang just
as you describe.

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