I just got a coppermine based laptop (hyperdata) that won't boot linux without disabling the L2 cache. I've tried RH 6.2, RH 6.9 and Debian 2.4 (slink). It runs windoze, FreeBSD and OpenBSD just fine. It hangs on the "Loading Linux" line displaying variable numbers of periods. Debian is the only one that actually gave me an error of "out of memory". I read in the kernel mail archives about a detection problem for the coppermine cache but the patch was dated late last year. Linux does work without using the cache... and I compiled a 2.4-test8 kernel which had the same problems. At first I was thinking a cache problem but I find it hard to believe that a problem with the on die cache would escape from Intel. Plus it runs everything else just fine. Very strange. Any thoughts? Charlie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org