On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Rod McCown <rodmccown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- "Such a man cannot be a spy. He polishes his shoes."--Sam Neill portraying Sidney Reilly in "Reilly, Ace of Spies." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
