Re: Installing kernel 2.4

From: J Sloan (jjs@toyota.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 17:54:50 EST


"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:

> So how come NetWare and NT can detect this at run time, and we have to
> use a .config option to specifiy it? Come on guys.....

Linux detects this as well -

However this is not about detection, but optimizations.

Optimizations e.g. for xeon could keep a K6/2 from booting!

It should probably default to something safe like 386 though...

jjs

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