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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Legacy hardware dropped in 5.X
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On Fri, 2005-May-06 18:09:12 -0400, Henry wrote:
>Why was support for some legacy hardware dropped in 5.X?

AFAIK, only 80386 support in GENERIC.  There may be other changes
in drivers supported in GENERIC.

> I can't be  
>really specific since my knowledge on my old old machine is  
>limited... But it installs and works fine on 4.X but can't be  
>installed using 5.X.

Since you haven't explained what you mean by "can't be installed", I'm
not sure we can help.  Can you please describe exactly what error you
are seeing and when.  If it's an old machine, have you tried booting
with ACPI disabled?  Can you also place dmesg files from verbose boots
on both 4.X and 5.X somewhere - that will show what the kernel thinks
is different.

-- 
Peter Jeremy