Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Thomas Ruedas: > > When booting I noticed the following message: > > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > > Workaround enabled. > > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. R. Brock Lynn: > Have a look at the kernel code: > (I'm referring to kernel 2.2.3 but it may be exac

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-17 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Thomas Ruedas wrote: > > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > I have a rather old mac

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Alec Smith
Even my minimal Winwhatever systems which never did any real work couldn't go beyond a week... Now they do more work and go for 3+ months at a time with Debian 2.1/kernel 2.2.x :) On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't worry about it. The linux bug workaroud deals VERY effective

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread shaleh
> Don't worry about it. The linux bug workaroud deals VERY effectively > with it. I have a dual pentium system with the same boot message. It has > been running Debian Linux for 3 years without ANY problem. HE! HE! > Windoze 98 will crap out after 49 days of continuous operation. That is actually

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Thank you very much for your replies. " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 16 Apr 1999 15:13:07 - >Linux now implements a workaround that essentially allows the processor >to successfully reject the instruction instead of locking up. John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 16 Apr 1999 11:56:45

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > > When booting I noticed the following message: > > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > > Workaround enabled. > > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > > I h

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Thomas Ruedas wrote: > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. Ther

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread shaleh
> > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > I have a rather old machine with an Intel Pe