Comment Re:This isn't about the i486 (Score 1) 83
Yeah, Via made a clone that was similar not-quite-i586 fairly recently too.
I have an old embedded box with one that has SATA 6Gbps ports on it that I thought I would use zeroing out old hard drives.
I tried Puppy, DSL, SystemRescueCD, and a bunch of others and none would finish boot. FreeDOS is fine.
It's either eWaste or I need to dig out an Infomagic CD from the attic to get Redhat 9 pr whatever. Probably need to look up when the jump from 3 to 6 happened in SATA land.
But Linus is correct that actual distros don't supoort it. There's one project for composing embedded images that I might try before it hits a shredder. Or NetBSD maybe.