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#1 2024-09-13 17:51:43

archjman
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New Install on VIA C3 Nehemaiah System

I have a small stack of these old VIA (Cyrix) C3 systems.  They'll run Debian 11, but the Debian folks are getting militant about dropping 32-bit support, so I thought I would give Arch Linux 32 a try.

They're 686 architecture, but 32-bit.  They do have CMOV, MMX, and SSE.  I gave them 512 MB RAM and I am about to try giving the boot loader the "iommu=off" parameter to see if it will boot successfully.  The previous attempt seemed to stall loading the initial image.

Any suggestions I should know about?  Is this processor known to work (or not work) on Arch Linux 32?

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#2 2024-09-13 18:29:25

archjman
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Re: New Install on VIA C3 Nehemaiah System

Well, it tried to boot and got past the initramfs notice, but then had a kernel panic at 16.9s into the boot process.

Do I need to track down some i486 installation media?  Or figure out how to build a custom boot image?

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#3 2024-09-13 19:21:55

abaumann
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Re: New Install on VIA C3 Nehemaiah System

There is a i486 ISO, but this is one is old.
Easiest ist to use pacstrap with a custom pacman.conf with the Architecture set to i486, and installl it onto a CompactFlash
disk, then put that disk into the destination machine. The wiki here is full of examples.. :-)

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