From: bob myers (bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org)
Date: 03/20/93


From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: Re: Linux and Cyrix 486DLC
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 23:38:25 GMT

In article <732342308snx@attila.sublink.org> gf@attila.sublink.org (Giovanni Fuganti) writes:
>Hello there!
>
> I've got a lot of trouble trying to install SLS (March '93) on a Cyrix
>486DLC-based clone.
> The problem is simply that it don't works at all! I put the boot disk
>in drive A:, I power the computer, I see "Loading ....", then "Press ..
>etc" and then nothing more, the computer hang up!
> I changed to an Intel 486 - the other hardware remaining the same -
>and all worked fine.
> Is there anyone experiencing something similar?
>
>Thanks
>Gianni
This might be the same thing I experienced when I tried to install
OS 2/2.0 on my 486slc laptop (had 8 mb ram/60 mb hard drive). The
system thought that it was installed on a real 486 dx system, and had
problems with entering either dos or windows mode -- both caused the system
to hang.

I'm not sure that cyrix has the intel architecture down pat yet...

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