This is only marginally connected to Debian, but since the Debian rescue gave me a certain error I'm hoping someone can offer some insight.
I am trying to upgrade my motherboard from a 468sx-25 to a 486DX-2-66 CPU. The motherboard supports it (according to the manual) and the CPU is straight Intel. The problem... I set all the jumpers correctly for CPU type, speed, bus speed (I have an VLBus board set at 33MHz). I get everything all set and start the machine and it does the system test, the Bios seems to find everything right, then it goes to start the OS. I normally boot to MS-DOS and from a config.sys menu choose windows or dos or linux via loadlin. If I just let it run, booting from the hard drive it just stops (warm-boot works so the system doesn't fully hang up). If I boot from a floppy it will display Loading MS-DOS and then either stop or say "Divide Overflow". If I boot from the Debian Rescue floppy, I get all the wonderful help screens with no problem and if I hit enter for the default boot it will load root.bin and then start loading the kernel. Then the system will halt with this message... invalid compressed format (err=2) Do I have a buggy CPU (bought it cheap and used) or is there some motherboard or BIOS setting I am completely missing. Or is there anything else? When I put my old CPU in everything works with no problem. As I said, off-topic, but the Debian error message might be more helpful in figuring out what is the problem. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .