On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:10:14 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Camaleón: > >> How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using >> i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-? > > No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on > Pentium CPU - not Pentium III CPU. You are right, - it is packaged for > the Pentium II and above.
Yep, I forgot that Pentium "brand" included several microarchitecture models (as other co-lister correctly pointed out off-list), going from plain Pentium up to PIV and i686 kernel fails with the older ones (needing i486 I'd guess) ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
