On Tuesday 08 Oct 2002 10:37 pm, Ben Reser wrote:
everybody who has an i686 machine is missing the point. Every rpm on the
installation cd's are for i568, so why is there a directory named i686. the
fact is that if the rpms are for i586 then the kernel should be for i586 and
anybody who has a i586 should recompile the kernel themselves. ok the
processer or the software that identifies it is bugged, but if the i686
directory had not been there, this whole problem would not have happened :-)
rowland
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:15:20PM +0100, rowland penny wrote:
> > mandrake is advertised as being i586 (or pentium) compatible not i686
> > (celeron, p2,p3,p4) so why have a directory named i686?. redhat 8.0 loads
> > onto a epia based system without any trouble so why doesn't mandrake!
>
> Well from what I understand the bug isn't that the i686 directory is
> there. The i686 directory lets i686 machines use the optimized
> libraries for their arch. Everything else will use the libraries in
> just the /lib dir. Apparently there was a bug in the kernel that
> mistakenly identifies your processor as i686 not i586. So ld tries to
> use the i686 libraries. Thus the error.
>
> Deleting the i686 tree resolves the bug because then ld does try to use
> those libraries since they aren't there and falls back on the other
> ones.
>
> The workaround is already posted on the errata page. At this point
> there is no other way to fix it other than replacing the kernel in the
> install CD with a fixed one. And that isn't going to happen until the
> next version.
>
> Now at some point I'm sure cooker will get fixed and then you could make
> a CD set with just the cooker kernel and that will work around you
> problem in an easier way.
