On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:08:20PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> Right. Is there a way to debug this with a bit more certainty? What are
> the common causes of an early panic? Presumably a triple-fault would most
> likely be caused by a lack of memory?

Possible, if it can't install the page table.

> 
> OK, I just took another look at the machine. It's a 386, not a 486. Should
> still work though, right? It's an AMD chip running at 25 MHz, and there's
> a separate Cyrix-labelled floating point chip.

Should work as well.

> 
> With the 2-disc floppy set, it loads the image (completing the line with
> the hex numbers), waits for about 2 seconds (decompressing? Or is that
> done on the fly?) and then reboots.

Did you try the boot-tiny.fs floppy ?
For sure the 2 floppy set won't fit in 4M.

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