azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down14
arrow-up1578arrow-down1external-linkI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeazha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-212 days agoLinux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU. (Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 days agoYou can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.
Linux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.
(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.