[TriLUG] Re RH 7.2 and Duron CPU

[M. Mueller]

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:42:22PM -0400, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > I'm writing this from a Duron.  Never ever ever has it panicked.  I've
> > had 1GHz Thunderbirds panic running various versions of Red Hat between
> > 6.2 and 7.2.  But this Duron is very very solid.  Hrmmm funny I just
> > noticed I'm running an i686 kernel (how'd that happen I wonder...)
>
> I remember from various #nvidia snippets that an i686 or a k6 kernel
> works, but athlon kernels might have a tendency to panic...

At install time, is there a way to check and select a kernel based on 
architecture (i386, i586, i686, K6, Athlon)?  

If so, given that this is an install time option, will the answer to the 
question be distro-specific since installers are distro-specific?

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