-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 January 2004 11:15, Ronald Pijnacker wrote: > Hi! > > Yesterday I tried out the i686 LiveCD for my laptop with a K6 processor. > > First of all, I am a bit confused on whether or not the K6 will run i686 > correctly. Some sources on the internet say yes, others no. > However, the LiveCD boots fine, so I thought all was OK. > > However after installing stage3 and the prebuild backages, I did > > $ chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash > > and I got an "Illegal instruction". > So, apparently my K6 processor has problems with i686 anyway. > > This surprised me a bit, since I expected the LiveCD to also run i686 > compiled binaries. Ergo: if it boots, it will also run after installing > from the harddrive. No such luck, though. > > Any comments?
IIRC the K6 IS an i586, but is so close to an i686 somethings will work. Also, the LiveCD's could be compiled -mcpu=i686 so optimized for i686 but not breaking compatability with old arches, but I'm just guessing on that. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFPpHInuLMrk7bIwRArTXAJ9s9MIxDBiRG/iEcq1MwXgEkPq+kgCdErOe xGANes2HInJk2ZpbUe5P2Uc= =CxlE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
