[CentOS] latest kernel - version question

Mon Jan 10 00:19:06 UTC 2011
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

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.