Regarding the failure to load Debian 2.6 kernels on a Geode system...
Geert Stappers wrote:
Op 09-03-2008 om 21:32 schreef Frans Pop:
This is obviously not so much an installer issues, but more a kernel issue.
Agreed. But finding this report I decided to add to it. Feel free to
reassign this to a more appropriate project.
Somewhere along the line the kernel changed in a way that is incompatible
with your hardware, either the (upstream) kernel code or the kernel config.
Comparing the kernel configs of that FC8 kernel and the Debian 2.6.24
kernel
could give us some clues then.
The first thing to check,
would be the math co-processor emulation support in the kernel.
The DSL-N 2.6.12 kernel boots okay and reports the following flags.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : Geode by NSC
cpu family : 5
model : 1
model name : Cx486DLC
stepping: 0
cpu MHz : 332.052
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx mmxext 3dnowext
3dnow
bogomips: 647.16
AFAIK the fpu flag indicates a math co-processor.
Bob
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