New install

[Robert Myers]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Rod McCown <rodmccown at aircanopy.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>        I just finished with a RedHat class and am trying to run the "Fedora
> 13 desktop" on the only thing that I have left in my office that I can get
> 512 MB of RAM on. The disk will boot my laptop, but unfortunately it is a
> company laptop and I cannot put anything else on it. But I know that the CD
> works. I just tried on a AMD K6-2 500Mhz machine and it says this is the
> wrong architecture. It says:
>
> This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: cmov
> Unable to boot.    Please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
>
> Is this CPU just too old for the version I'm using?
>

While waiting for the (clears throat) definitive answer from this
list, you might want to try Googling CMOV and pondering what comes up.
 Among other things, I wonder if the problem isn't the way the
instruction is (or isn't) detected (or, alternately, how CMOV is
implemented by a particular chip), rather than whether the capability
is really present or not.  Please keep in mind that I am not a
know-it-all hotshot who has an instant answer for everything, just
someone who sometimes remembers odd things.  CMOV has an interesting
history.

Robert.

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