On Feb 14, 5:19 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Robert Veelenturf wrote:
> > On Feb 12, 3:11 pm, David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On 12 February 2010 18:12, Robert Veelenturf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I was unable to run the Live CD version of Sage (sage42lwlcd.iso, using a
> >>> flash drive) on two different machines, one of them less than a year old.
> >>> It has not been tested adequately or it has unusual and unspecified (as
> >>> far
> >>> as I can tell) hardware requirements.
> >>> Thanks
> >> PCs typically need changes in the bios to allow them to boot from flash
> >> drives.
>
> >> Dave
>
> > Yes, the OS booted and I was able to launch Sage, but the window
> > exited shortly thereafter.
>
> > I was able to run Firefox.
>
> > Bob
>
> What processor does your PC have in it? It is possible the Sage DVD is
> compiled
> assuming the CPU supports certain instructions, such as SSE, which if your CPU
> lacked, would cause a problem. I don't know anything much about the DVD, or
> how
> it was compiled, but it might be helpful if you state the CPU type.
>
> Dave
Partial CPU-Z report output for the older of the 2 machines:
Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Name Intel Celeron
Codename Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2)
CPUID F.2.9
Extended CPUID F.2
Brand ID 10
Core Stepping D1
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 2193.4 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 22.0 x 99.7 MHz
Rated Bus speed 398.8 MHz
Stock frequency 2200 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line
size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 128 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line
size
FID/VID Control no
Bob
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