!!!I have a 486 with 256K cache and had no problem with any version
!!!of Linux, until I tried 0.97 today. 0.97 compiled OK but when I 
!!!try to boot, it hangs just before printing out HD partitions data.
!!!If I boot at lower speed (8 Mhz vs. 33 Mhz) then it comes up OK.

!!Just thought I would add my voice to Nhut's:
!!My 486/33 does exactly the same thing.  I didn't know that I could
!!boot at a lower speed, is that A BIOS option?  (Not that it
!!would be a real solution anyway)

!It sounds like there must be something else you have in common than
!just having a fast machine.  I have a 486/33 with 256k cache, 8 MB
!memory, ISA motherboard and SCSI hard drives and have no problem.
!Are you both using IDE hard drives?

I was only able to reproduce this behavior when compiling the kernel
without the scsi support.  Another variable:  this only happened under
gcc 2.2.2d for me, not under gcc 2.2.2 so perhaps optimization under
2.2.2d is too good, although I would assume that the problem is the
scsi code being omitted, thus without the baggage to slow the system
down the initilization fails.

-Nathan Laredo, gt7080a@prism.gatech.edu
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