Hey Stefan, I have the same ambition here. I want to run openSUSE Tumbleweed on a IBM Thinkpad T42 with a Pentium-M and 1 GB RAM (all 32bit of course, hence Tumbleweed). The boot seems as well to be stuck at "A" if I boot without boot options. With "rodata=off" it gets to point "B". In the end I want to run console only, but with modern tools. I would be happy to try stuff, if anybody has an idea. https://paste.opensuse.org/0ccd01ab Cheers, Bernd Am 02.05.22 um 09:53 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
Hi all,
what is the minimal suitable CPU type for openSUSE Tumbleweed (I know that i586 is deprecated / less supported, but I guess there is still a "minimal viable target system" for it)?
I updated a Pentium-M (Dothan, probably) based Toughbook CF-51 and after finding that I need "rodata=off" kernel parameter for the kernel to even boot, it fails miserably later in userspace apparently (it just hangs).
So before I'm filing bug reports, the question is if this is still supposed to work.
Best regards,
seife