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[fred smith]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 07:47:20PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Terry Polzin wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:49 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:26:25PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I've got an Intel D865GBFL that I purchase from Daktech in March 2006.
> >>> It still runs, but I'm stuck on F14.
> >>> I haven't been able to get F16 to install or F17 to run right.
> >>> It uses a pentium 4, so some think its ancient.
> >>
> >>in recent RHEL (haven't investigated Fedora, but it may be the same)
> >>RH is providing ONLY the PAT kernel, which means of course, your
> >>CPU must support PAT. I suppose it's possible that a 6 year-old
> >>P4 may not.
> >>
> >>I'm running a newer AMD processor here, so this may not apply to
> >>your CPU, but when I do "cat /proc/cpuinfo" I get (among other things)
> >>this output:
> >>
> >>flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> >>mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext 
> >>fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni 
> >>cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8legacy abm sse4a 
> >>misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps 
> >>hwpstate [8]
> >>
> >>which lists pae near the start of the list. I'd suspect you could tell
> >>whether your P4 supports it or not by doing the same.
> 
> pat is in my flags list.

did I really type "PAT"?? man, I gotta go back and read these things
before I send 'em out. I mean "PAE"! :(


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