Does FC2 support Cyrix MII?

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> Over the weekend, I attempted to upgrade my ancient Cyrix MII firewall
> (installers think it's an i686) from FC1 to FC2, but the distro disk
> failed to boot the machine.  During the loading of the kernel, it
> abruptly returns to the BIOS boot process.
> 
> - The distro disk did boot (and upgrade) my AMD Athlon box.
> 
> - The Cyrix MII has booted distro disks for years.  It has 128MB of
>   RAM.
> 
> I didn't think to try a memory test.
> 
> Does anyone know of some wierdness in the MII that is no longer
> supported in the install kernel?

Not that I know of.  The 2.6 kernel actually has a Cyrix MIII
optimization flag, but none for the MII.  My guess is that something
in the BIOS is freaking it out.  You might try the usual suspects
(nodma, noapic, noprobe, etc.) and see if that solves it.
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