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.
This is a common problem with the AMD K6 processors. People see the '6' and assume that its compatible with i686 (I've done it myself). The K6 chips are like i686's minus a few important instructions. Download a i586 LiveCD (does such a thing exist?) or even a basic x86 LiveCD. This should fix your problem.
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