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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > BL2 RAMDISK works on this Compaq 5010
>
> I assume that is the default kernel.
>
> > 116MHz laptop computer.
>
> That's a strange speed.  Are you sure it's a Pentium
> not a souped-up 486?

Our Compaq 486 laptop is 75MHz, our Toshiba 100Mhz is Pentium.
The owner said it was a Pentium I, but he also said it had 'no software'.

It had Win98.

> > p1 kernel 2.2.26
> > Starts to boot them almost immediately a screen full of:
> > CPU#0:  Machine Check Exception:
>
> I suggest you try the default kernel.

Okay, thanks.  BL2 ramdisk booted with the default kernel.


We will probably get him online with Win98 since it has a winmodem and we 
have a working cardbus wireless card which works in that computer (it 
crashes in ours).  But he can also learn a bit about linux and then we can 
put it on one of his three desktops (PII).

 > Cheers,
> Steven