Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Roeland Th. Jansen) | Subject | Re: NexGen Processors and Linux kernel 2.0 | Date | 14 Jun 1996 08:00:50 -0000 |
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dmv@cybercom.net wrote :
: Things we not good though. I booted from the floppy... It uncompressed : the kernel... and then died saying that this is a 386, and the kernel has : been optimized for a 486 or faster. Giving up...
the nexgen is /not/ a pentium. it 'misses' a few instructions that are not necessary because it's being taken care of in the hardware; just recompile your kernel and select 386. I have been reading in the past that 486 optimized kernels also work at 386's to you may take that route as well.
-- Truus, the choise of the usenet generation. -- Truus, the choise of the usenet generation.
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