Re: Forcing i686, ignore Athlon for Install of RHES 3.0

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Bryla, Bob J. wrote:
> Because some mods I'm using aren't Athlon aware, I need to TURN OFF the 
> Athlon recognition at either install time, or boot time -- just plain 
> old i686.
>  
> I've tried rebuilding the kernel, using RH's instructions in the ref 
> guide, but I still get kernel panics, and I'm still not sure if I've 
> really turned off Athlon support!
>  
> But I don't think that just setting a switch at boot time will help, 
> because the libs are still on the system and when I try to do 'insmod', 
> it will still see the kernel parameters related to Athlon that conflict 
> with the .o I'm using.

There are no Athlon-specific libraries in Linux.  There are only some
differences in glibc and openssl between i386 and i686.

> It's not obvious from the installer dialogue to tell the installer not 
> to include any Athlon libs, only i686 libs...

The only thing that is Athlon-specific is the kernel itself.  There is
no way to tell the installer to install a different kernel than the one
it probes.  You could install a different kernel after install, but I
really don't think it would make a big difference.

> So unless someone has a magical way to get my 'make' to work, I'd just 
> as soon do a re-install and somehow make the installer unaware of Athlon 
> XP...

Since there is no was we can debug your Makefile without seeing it,
you'll need to publish it.  If you're building an application from
source and you claim that the app panics the kernel (which should NOT
happen unless the app goes into kernel-land and screws with things), you
really contact the program's maintainers and ask them to fix it.
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