Doing some further research on google i find that there actually *is* some functionality that the geode is missing to be a full 686 processor. It seems that other distros either have a 486 kernel flavour or kernel patches for 686 which are able to emulate the missing functionality. Also I am running debian now on the boards since two weeks and the problem didnt occur again. Im not sure if I am supposed to open a new bug for this but I'd like to give it another try to either suggest
1) implementing the nopl patch, which might be this: http://notes.osuv.de/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=geode_i686.patch http://notes.osuv.de/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=geode_nopl.patch or 2) implement a startup check in the current 686 kernel, so that i wont boot on a geode processor thank you -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063073 Title: adding back kernel flavour 386 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1063073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
