Re: Athlon and 2.4.x not booting

[Luigi Genoni]

You are not the first with this problem, athlon optimizzations try to get
the best from your FSB, but many chipset are not working properly.
Just loock at some lkml archive for the many threads about this topic.

Luigi

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Sir Woody Hackswell wrote:

> Hello, all!
>
> I have RedHat7.1, and an athlon 1.0GHz on an ASUS with ALi chipset (ASUS
> A7A266 DDR), and I've been having problems getting my kernel configured
> properly.  I've tried using the gcc 2.96 that comes with RH7.1 and also some
> rpms of gcc 3.0 to no success.
>
> If I compile 2.4.x as a K6-III, my machine will boot fine, but when I try to
> optimize the kernel and compile it as Athlon, I compile fine with no
> warnings, but when I install the kernel and boot, I decompresses the kernel
> and hangs. No errors, no crash dump - nothing.
>
> Is there a problem with my hardware?  Or is this a known problem?  Any way
> to turn on more debugging?  Thanks!
>
> -Woody!
>
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