On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Cia Watson ciamarie@my180.net wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:54:21 -0500 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:19:22 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 01/09/11 11:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
And highly, highly recommended to use a kernel optimized for i686 if that's your real architecture: there's a big performance difference.
since the last mainstream i586 CPU was the original Pentium (60-133Mhz) and Pentium/MMX (up to 200Mhz?), and everything since Pentium Pro, including Pentium-II and newer, has been i686, its a no brainer.
Don't forget AMD's K6 processors -- these are also i586 processors.
I have an AMD K6 that won't boot Fedora 7 (or later) due to missing some bit of architecture (I forget specifics, sorry...). So I suspect it's not truly an i586 processor? (fwiw, It did boot and install Linux Mint 9, LXDE however.)
I didn't know the difference 10 years ago when I bought it, though it had Win98 installed which was fine back then... Now it's barely adequate as a print server.
You've my sympathies. You may need to build and test with a separately built PXE compatible kernel with the right architectures: modified initrd should be fairly easy.