02-04-2024, 01:35 AM
(02-03-2024, 03:00 PM)nortti Wrote: It does seem to be a case of a too old of a cpu: I can reproduce the crash when running under QEMU TCG with the CPU type set to pentium-v1, but not pentium2-v1. The kernel also reports itself as i686 (so pentium pro or later).
You might have better luck with the pmmx version of Adélie Linux.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of Adélie. Another distro I'm thinking of giving a go is AOSC OS/Retro.
Actual i586 machines seem to be rare enough that even software that is supposed to work, usually doesn't. For example, even though the 320CDT exceeds the minimum specifications of Slackware (486/64MB), it won't successfully boot.