[plug] Windows upgrades for people and Macs

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 20:19, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 16:41, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> I'm very suprised that RHAT6
>> fails on a P4 actually, it should just install i386 kernel by default
>> and everything should be doozy.

> With a P4, whatever check it does hangs when it
> cannot get a match.

Intel fudged the CPU model number bits for the P4, IIRC instead of being the 
next in sequence it read zero plus some not-defined-as-CPU-model bits. When 
older 2.2 kernels ran across this, they suicided because they didn't know how 
to deal with a `less than 386' processor. A kernel option to not suicide 
(maybe cpuisreally=386|486|586) would have been thoughtful, but such is life. 
For most people, RH 6.2 and kernels of that age are water under the bridge.

Cheers; Leon