🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi, if you have Linux 1.2.x running on one of these motherboards
with a intel 486dx4/100 please email me some lines so that I may
contact you.

Are you able to run Linux with the Turbo button on?

here are some system specs:

BIOS Microid Research 1995 v.2.10

The CMOS/BIOS setup program reports:

C TYPE		486DX4
CPU REV		    0480
CPU MHZ		    99.9

CHIPSET		OPTI802G
BIOSID		OPTI14C1
BIOS DATE	16/01/95

Now,
I'm able to boot the system with the 1.2.1 install boot/root disks
*only* if I switch the Turbo button -off- ( LED on case then shows 66)
the Bogomips I get for this are 9.5.  very slow indeed!

The following is a screen output when I boot the machine
with the turbo -on- ( crashing ).

I'll type in exactly what I wrote down when I booted with 1.2.1 install
boot disk, with boot: mount root=/dev/hdb1 ro

scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: detected total
Memory 14499k/16384k available (872k Kernel code, 384k reserved, 228 data)
This honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
Swansea Univerity Computer Society NET3.019
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.019
IP Protocols: ICMP., UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling ... OK,fpu using execption 16 error reporting
Checking 'hlt' instruction ... general protection error:0103
Efp: 0010:0010eb31
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 0000001e ebx756e6547 ecx:00000202 edx:000003d5
esi: 0009e000 edi; 00101ffc ebp:000003f0 esp:001db544
ds:0018 es;0018 fs:0018 gs:0018 ss:0018
Process swapper ( pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=001d9570)
Stack: 001eb4a 0010f37a 00210d40 01000000 00210d40 01000000 001d8e30 00000007
       00000000 0000000 00000000 001db5a8 00000000 40000000 00000027 00000007
       00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Call trace: 0010f37a
Code f4 f4 f4 68<-? f5 ea 10 00 eb e0 90 90 90 90 90 e8 8b fe ff ff
kfree on non-kmalloced memory: 001db568, next=00000000,order=0
task[0](swapper) killed: unable to recover kernel panic: trying to free upper
memory space in swapper task - not syncing.



Booting with the Turbo -off- causes no problems ... I have tried all
possible combinations of BIOS/CMOS settings for enable/disable 486 cache,
read-write wait states, System speed ( which I thought was the Turbo
button bit) ...

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Rob.
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