Where is the i686 kernel

Kreg Schlosser liberaltugboat at gmail.com
Sat May 21 07:30:12 UTC 2005


If you have more the 887 mb of RAM then the 386 kernal cant see all of it.
So in systems with a gig of ram, you cant access all of it untill you
install 686 or k7 kernel

On 5/19/05, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 23:49 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 20:47 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > > I have an i686 class machine (as reported by uname -m) so I gues I
> > > should be running a kernel that is optimised for an i686. The kernel I
> > > am currently running is  2.6.10-5-386, however, when I search for the
> > > 585 kernel in Synaptic, I cannot find it. Any ideas where I should be
> > > looking?
> 
> > There is no 586 kernel in Ubuntu.  386, 686, or K7 are available (with
> > last two have SMP flavor for multi-processors systems).  (Is this a typo
> > from your side?)
> 
> Yes, it was a typo!
> 
> > What you need (probably) is 686.  Search for, and install
> > "linux-image-686".
> 
> Thanks. I found it.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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