I would recommend putting your root system on your first drive. I'm using 2.4.9 on a 100 MHz 486 with 16 mb ram which I mentioned inn an earlier post. Greg P.S. It runs just fine. On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:30:28AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > What kind of success has people been having compiling 2.4 kernels on older > style machines such as 486 with IDE drives? I've been running into all > kinds of problems getting the kernel to work with my second IDE drive. > Basically, I have one IDE drive (40 meg I use for booting on /dev/hda and > a second larger IDE drive on /dev/hdc. Up till now this all worked fine. > BTW HDB points to a CDROM drive. With my old 2.2.18 kernel which I > compiled myself all drives were fine and the Slackware boot image with > 2.2.19 works ok too. > > The problems range from losing interrupts every few seconds to kernel > panics resulting in the inability to mount the root file system at all! I > have my root file system on /dev/hdc. The BIOS is apparently old enough > that I cannot boot with this 2.5 gig drive and this is why the crazy > settup. I've been experimenting with different IDE config options with > the compile. It's got to be around the IDE configs I would think. > > Any ideas? > <Steve> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
