New MB recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> The initrd has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU.  Its tied to your
>> kernel, which is built for whichever CPU it was built against.
>>
>
> Well, that's good.
>
> OK, so where does the *kernel* get built for some off-the-shelf distro?
>  If I install SuSE  on a P2 box or a P4 box, is the kernel that comes
> with the distro simply a pre-compiled kernel for the i386 (I think
> that's the expression) or when I install the distro, is a specific
> kernel compiled that is optimized for my CPU?  And since I have
> re-compiled the kernel on my tweaked Caldera box (just a P2), would I
> expect that kernel on that drive to boot on the P4?

The kernels that ship with SuSE-10.2 are built for i586 only.  FC kernels 
are available in i586 & i686 flavors.  I have no clue what Caldera was 
building years ago.  I haven't touched Caldera in about 5 years.

Regardless, yo'ure making all of this ridiculously more complicated than 
it needs to be.  Buy a new system, install a fresh OS, copy over your 
data.  You're done.


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