Compiling 2.4 kernel on older machine

[Gregory Nowak]

I would recommend putting your root system on your first drive.
I'm using 2.4.9 on a 100 MHz 486 with 16 mb ram which I mentioned inn an earlier post.
Greg

P.S. It runs just fine.

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:30:28AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> What kind of success has people been having compiling 2.4 kernels on older
> style machines such as 486 with IDE drives?  I've been running into all
> kinds of problems getting the kernel to work with my second IDE drive.
> Basically, I have one IDE drive (40 meg I use for booting on /dev/hda and
> a second larger IDE drive on /dev/hdc.  Up till now this all worked fine.
> BTW HDB points to a CDROM drive.  With my old 2.2.18 kernel which I
> compiled myself all drives were fine and the Slackware boot image with
> 2.2.19 works ok too.
> 
> The problems range from losing interrupts every few seconds to kernel
> panics resulting in the inability to mount the root file system at all!  I
> have my root file system on /dev/hdc.  The BIOS is apparently old enough
> that I cannot boot with this 2.5 gig drive and this is why the crazy
> settup.  I've been experimenting with different IDE config options with
> the compile.  It's got to be around the IDE configs I would think.
> 
> Any ideas?
> <Steve>
> 
> 
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