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In article <376unn$ssc@gazpacho.wariat.org>,
Steven J. Sobol <sjsobol@wariat.org> wrote:
>michael goshorn (goshorn@mozart.cs.colostate.edu) wrote:
>: Steve,
>: 	I had a lot of problems trying to install Linux as well.  Most of
>: the error messages I saw related to paging errors.  I first tried increasing
>: the wait states on SRAM in the Bios setup and finally ended up disabling
>: my external cache.
>: 	You may want to consider this as a possible fix although it will
>: significantly slow your system.  I fooled around with just about everything
>: else I could think of for about a month and finally found notes on this
>: in the gcc faq.
>
>I can't do it. I don't have a cache. This is a 386sx.
>I did try turning off shadow RAM which slowed down the system
>and it hung on "Loading Ramdisk."

Somewhere in there it calculates the speed of the CPU in
"bogomips".  It might just not expect anything that slow and puke.  
I tried messing with it on a 386dx/33 and it was ok, but I never
installed it on my hard disk until i upgraded to a 486/50.
You may be able to just try a different distribution, and/or 
replace just the kernel with somebody else's, which is not
compiled for 486 specific code.  Come to think of it, methinks
that would be the problem.

>I'm just going to get a new motherboard. Needed a cpu upgrade anyhow.

Try the above, before you spend any $$.  



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