testing 8.2 using qemu

[Philippe Clérié]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:16:57 Ton van Overbeek wrote:
> The second one (3DNow required) is due to the change to the 2.6.25
> kernel for 8.2. The kernel checks for CPU features and does not
> continue booting when it does not find them. The kernel for the XO is
> build for the AMD LX-Geode and therefore looks for 3DNow.
> If you would run qemu on a machine with an AMD processor it most
> likely will work. If you are running it on an Intel processor, you
> get the "kernel needs 3dnow" message.

It does not seem to matter what the host computer is. I tried it a while 
back on a Athlon 64 and it still outputs the "kernel needs 3dnow" 
message.

Philippe

------
The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>