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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Linux on a Microchannel box
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.174243.8321@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:42:43 GMT
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- dan@systech.com (Dan Gill) writes:
- : Hello linux gurus,
- :
- : I have downloaded linux, or at least enough to get started. It boots
- : up just great on a ISA-bus pc, but if I try it on a NCR 486/25
- : MicroChannel box, it will not complete the boot sequence. It loads
- : the bootimage from floppy, and then never gets much past where it displays
- : the int levels of com ports.
-
- (how do you get MCA on a non IBM machine, I thought it was a proporitry
- standard)
- :
- : My question:
- :
- : Is the problem the fact that I'm trying to run on a MCA box?
-
- Yes, even if it will bootup fully, then linux will not drive an MCA
- HD controller.
- So no HD.
-
- (and a lack of docs in existence to write one)
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