On Sunday 05 February 2006 11:22, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:06 +0000, Richard Brooklyn wrote:
Are you using a DVD installation disc? The normal CD one only contains a i386 kernel as far as I know... Maybe Pentium M's have issues with some i686 instructions or something.... *shrug*
Googling about it seems that both P-M's and P4M's (which are different BTW) should be happy with i686 instructions, the only reference I can find to anything similar was a guy running a i686 kernel build on an AMD k7.
If you run a i686 kernel, it would be worth installing libc6-i686 to take advantage of the new CPU instructions as well as any optimisations the compiler brings.
It is possible that running libc6-i686 on top of a i386 kernel may produce some unexpected results, but the other way round should be perfectly safe.
Regards, Paul.