Re: Motherboard Change- will Fedora survive?

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 19:44, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> > yeah it should work. The fedora kernel has drivers for all the relevant 
> > bits... I recently made the switch from an intel 815 pIII-933 
> > mainboard/processor in my primary machine to a althon 64 3000+ on a msi 
> > kt8neo fisr and it was flawless on first boot.
>
> Didn't it have an CPU-specific kernel? 

Athlon/Athlon 64s will run a 686 kernel.  Not as fast as an Athlon-
specific kernel, but it'll run.  I don't think you can run an Athlon
kernel on a 686, though.

> e.g. with an install on an athlon system, one gets an athlon kernel
> which doesn't work on pentium.
> Is there a way to force a 686-kernel at install time?

Not that I know of.  I think anaconda installs the appropriate kernel
for the processor it sees.
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