> I have a 386/DX25 Chips based motherboard (82c80x) with 8MB of
> chip RAM, and a BIOS dating at 1989, which cannot run linux
> 2.0.31+glibc (Redhat 5.0). It _can_ run 2.0.29 with the old libc
Are you sure that problem is not with libc?
386's are expected to work, except that they are not good as multiuser
servers. I have 386 at home and use it *sometimes* for development. (I
was really lucky that I did not use it after 2.1.76 or so where 386
support broke and it was nasty bug in uaccess.h).
> I can't imagine building a smaller monolithic kernel. I
> simply did _not_ add in support for any device not in the machine.
> It
You may even kill support for devices you *have* in machine, if you
want small kernel. Also, you might want to boot something smaller than
common redhat - I do not know how many bugs are in there. Is it
possible that bootup scripts fail, rather than kernel fails?
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