Group: comp.os.linux.setup


Subject: Older hardware and newer 2.4 kernels
From: Bill Marcum
Date: 10/16/2007 1:06:48 AM
On 2007-10-15, gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > I have here a Dell Latitude Laptop, the model XP475. > > He can successfully run an installation of the 2.2.16 and 2.2.18 > kernels for Slackware 7.1 and the unreleased 7.2 versions. > > Does the group have any suggestions for producing a generic kernel for > the I486DX that is from the 2.4 series that will boot properly on this > hardware? Obviously I could build it using the hardware emulators > currently available, such as Bochs or even QEMU but I would prefer > other solutions before I cross over to those ideas. What have you tried and how has it failed?