Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 07 Nov 2000 14:54:50 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: Installing kernel 2.4 |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> So how come NetWare and NT can detect this at run time, and we have to > use a .config option to specifiy it? Come on guys.....
Linux detects this as well -
However this is not about detection, but optimizations.
Optimizations e.g. for xeon could keep a K6/2 from booting!
It should probably default to something safe like 386 though...
jjs
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