On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Cia Watson <ciamarie at my180.net> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:54:21 -0500 > Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > >> At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:19:22 -0800 CentOS mailing list >> <centos at 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.