On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:32 -0500 "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? Yes: the cmov instruction is missing. The support for those CPUs was dropped in Fedora 12, after a long discussion. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support I don't know how many other distributions still support i586 hardware, but you can run at least CentOS 5 on it (which still has a couple of years left of updates left). -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
