On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:03:53PM +0100, rowland wrote:
> everybody who has an i686 machine is missing the point. Every rpm on the 
> installation cd's are for i568, so why is there a directory named i686. the 
> fact is that if the rpms are for i586 then the kernel should be for i586 and 
> anybody who has a i586 should recompile the kernel themselves. ok the 
> processer or the software that identifies it is bugged, but if the i686 
> directory had not been there, this whole problem would not have happened :-)

No the bug would have still been there.  You just wouldn't have had a
problem with it.  The bug is *NOT* the presence of the i686 directory.
The bug is the incorrect detection of your processor as being i686 not
i586.  Deleting the i686 is just a work around for the problem.

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