Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

Tom Leete
2001-01-10T03:53:38Z

Robert Kaiser wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I can't seem to get the new 2.4.0 kernel running on a 386 CPU.
> The kernel was built for a 386 Processor, Math emulation has been enabled.
> I tried three different 386 boards. Execution seems to get as far as
> pagetable_init() in arch/i386/mm/init.c, then it falls back into the BIOS as
> if someone had pressed the reset button. The same kernel boots fine on
> 486 and Pentium Systems.
^^^
>
> Any ideas/suggestions ?
>
> Rob
>

This may be off the wall, but since the 386 is diskless the kernel was
obviously built elsewhere. Had that tree previously been used for a 486
build? You might decompile vmlinux and look for non-386 instructions at or
prior to the crash point.

It might be faster to recompile from 'make mrproper' and see if it works
then.

Tom