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From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@cx518206-b.irvn1.occa.home.com>
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Subject: [BUG?] AMD K5 and 2.4 (was Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List)
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:35:31 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <200010112210.e9BMAe002775@trampoline.thunk.org> from "tytso@mit.edu" at Oct 11, 2000 06:10:40 PM
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(I'm replying to a message from about a month ago, but it's relevant to a
problem I'm having now.)

tytso@mit.edu wrote:

>    Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 20:13:35 +0200
>    From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
> 
[snip]
>    My Asus P55TP4 (i430FX)/AMD K5 PC also crashes after "Booting the
>    kernel..."
>    and before printing anything else
> 
> Are you sure it was compiled with the correct CPU?  If you configure the
> CPU incorrectly (686 when you only have a 586, etc.) the kernel *will*
> refuse to boot.

I have a Compaq Presario 425 here, with a K5 upgrade (by Evergreen
Technologies) in it. It reboots immediately after "Booting the kernel..."
with Linux 2.4.0test10 (I haven't tried test11preX on this machine) if the
kernel is compiled for 586/K5/etc. If I compile for 486, then it boots. If
I compile for 586/K5/etc. with 2.2.17, it boots. (This is all with egcs
1.1.2.)

Is this a real bug or just a documentation bug?

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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