-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 19 November 2002 12:56 am, John wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > Hello, > > > > as many of you already know, Red Hat 8.0 discs do not contain an i386 > > kernel anymore. The RULE project members, who are working to make it > > Is there a problem with the i386 on the updates site? No, and the installer uses the updates kernel if it is available. Failing that, it falls back to the kernel-BOOT package. > Even if _that_ didn't exist, the boot kernel is for I386. Would that > do? Sometimes. ;) The main problem with the BOOT kernel is that it doesn't have math emulation support. It won't boot on anything less than a 486DX without math emulation. BOOT package: [mfratoni@paradox XFree86-4.2.1]$ grep -i math /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i386-BOOT.config # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set i386 package: [mfratoni@paradox XFree86-4.2.1]$ grep -i math /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i386.config CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE92dibn/07WoAb/SsRAlvXAJ0UeOGfR4NaJoojWAgo5qHVeexJkgCgoBr1 FJQEP8nsbVUT/jRQAlTd1tk= =cmW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
