Subject: Re: PCI on Compaq deskpro 4000 ?
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/16/1997 08:51:09
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:09:12 +0200 
 Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > Did you try it on 486 or old pentium hardware ?

I have seen NT running on a 486 PCI system...

 > It does, and I recall having seen that it need a hack for compaq machines,
 > because these map the PCI bios at an unusal memory address (I think it's a
 > program running under MS-DOS wich will remap the bios before booting linux).

Oh, "ick."

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