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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan"
 
> Could a GPF be caused by someone having set a Cyrix PR200 MX cpu 
> (which the web says is 150MHz) to run at 167MHz?  Syschk thinks it 
> is 185MHz.

It probably is. Have you tried the kernel which works with the other
versions of BL?

> The crash occurs just before I would expect 'calibrating delay loop 
> XXXX Bogomips'.  It may have been set to 2x83 instead of 2z75 MHz.  
> In fact we may have set it this way ourselves a few years ago.

Here on 2.4, I see "CPU" follows the hash tables. So I would check
the CPU in any case.

> We have Cyrix PR200's in other computers running at 150MHz and 
> syschk thinks they are about as fast as an Intel 133MHz.  Cyrix 
> claims they are as faster as Intel 200MHz.  They must be measuring 
> different things.  I have found them slower at manipulating large 
> images than a PI 133.

Cyrix's marketing department tried to spin the truth.

> I have the PDF manual for this DFI board.  Why would DOS and 
> ramdisk linux not have the problem but loop or ext2 linux do have 
> it?

Try the ramdisk kernel with ext2. This error seems to occur while
the kernel is still booting, so is an interaction between Linux
and your hardware.

> > The young friend would like to know if he can download entire 
> > threads from this mail list because he is trying to read it all 
> > in reasonable order, offline.  I think he may already know more 
> > than I do about linux.

On https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/, you will find
links to gzip'd text versions of all the message threads. View
with zless.

David

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