It's an OLD version of Linux, sitting on an IBM 4866/75BL
'Cougar board' -- at the time BL stood for Blue Lightning
This is an ISA/VESA board, with the CPU soldered in, not socketed
It has two 512Meg IDE, a SB16 CD, hung from the sound card
on the Mitsumi-propriatary CD interface (1X:CD55), a VESA Video
Caching Controller card- with four 30-Pin Simms on controller,
and 16Meg main RAM to run with. What a screamer !!
One of the other 'quirks' is that Linux couldn't initalize the
sound card & CD interface properly- under that version, so to
boot: You have to bootstrap under DOS 6.22, then let CONFIG.SYS
create a menu to select boot style, and AUTOEXEC.BAT then runs
the DOS drivers to config the sound board & CD. At that point
a batch file starts the secondary Linux boot phase, using LOADLIN
to overwrite a kernel (read from the DOS partition), which only
then mounts your Linux root, and caries on as normal...!!!
No LILO prompt here- but that's the way we did it back in 1994.
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