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On 25 Aug 04 at 9:04, jamtat AT mailsnare.net wrote:

>Well, I'm not Steven, obviously, but I'll pipe in on this one tentatively.
>As I recall, the solution for running BL2 on a coprocessorless (new word
>alert! new word alert!) machine is to use a different kernel.  I think
>there's a kernel among those available for download under Slack 7.1 that has
>a coprocessor emulator: probably the stock kernel (bare.i).  I think to save
>space Steven turned off copro emulation in the kernel he specially compiled
>for BL2.  Hope that helps.
>
>James

Thank you, James. Yes, the 2.2.16 kernel obviously works without
copro, but then gets caught in an error loop with the message:

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapper...

Any idea what that means?

Christof


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