Re: 2.3.29: hang after "booting", before banner SOLVED

Mike Coleman (mkc@kc.net)
28 Nov 1999 22:35:12 -0600

Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com> writes:
> I've seen that twice, it was caused by wrong compiler settings:
> if you compile for "PPro/Pentium II", then the compiler uses instruction
> that are not supported by the K6/200.

Thanks--that was it!!

It was working back in 2.2, so I didn't think to check. It'd be nice if the
boot code could print an error message in this case. I don't even know if
that's possible, though.

--Mike

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