On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:41:56PM -0400, Charles Fulton wrote: > I just got a coppermine based laptop (hyperdata) that won't boot > linux without disabling the L2 cache. I've tried RH 6.2, RH 6.9 and > Debian 2.4 (slink). > > It runs windoze, FreeBSD and OpenBSD just fine. > > It hangs on the "Loading Linux" line displaying variable numbers of > periods. Debian is the only one that actually gave me an error of > "out of memory". > > I read in the kernel mail archives about a detection problem for the > coppermine cache but the patch was dated late last year. > > Linux does work without using the cache... and I compiled a > 2.4-test8 kernel which had the same problems. Look into the ./tests or ./testing directory for patches against test8. BTW, test8's VM is really FSCKED up. It'd be best if you used the stable kernel instead. -- Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://wookimus.net/chewie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 233 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20000920/782c5325/attachment.pgp -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org