On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 09:28:37PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
[...]
> In short the 386 version wil run on a 686 but not at optimum speed.
> Not sure what "unexpected results" might occur if a 686 kernel was run
> on a 3-4-586. Probably anything from no worky at all (unlikely in my
> estimation) to various intermittant problems.
[...]
In my experience, a kernel compiled for i586 will simply refuse to work
on a 386 - happened to me once that I tried to run such a kernel on a
386 and it simply came up with a message that it was compiled for a 586
and stopped.
Thomas
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