Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:52:36 -0700 (PDT) From: George Bonser Subject: Re: [svlug] Hardware Upgrade Highs and Lows On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tom Tomlinson wrote: > Sad to say, the dark half of my dual-boot setup did not fare too well. > Win95 just won't boot. Ah well, time to reinstall again. How sad it is > that Windows has to be reinstalled more often than Linux has to be > rebooted. Funny you should mention that ... seems the subject came up on the Kernel list today when discussing bogomips. Seems mini-squish came up with some code to try to determine processor speed. The K6 executes empty loops very well and so the time it takes to execute the loop is less than the minimum they expected so the thing counts down to zero and a divide gets a div by zero error and bingo ... damned thing will not boot with a k6/400! Microsoft will SELL you a fix for it.