Ughh Boot troubles

[BlackSoul]

Okay, finally got through the install process ( using 1.4_rc4 ) go to reboot
and after lilo gets ready to load i get the following message then it reboots:

[frenkel]

Hi,

You should change

[Lycander]

I'd recommend using -O2 instead of -O3. I've read a few sources already and here's the reasoning NOT to use -O3

- More likely to generate bad binaries that crash
- Prolongs compile time....
- .... little to no gain on performance, and in some cases actually produces slower code

[BlackSoul]

Will you marry me, Frank?

That worked like a charm, thank you very much.
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[BlackSoul]

Thanks for the info, Lycander. I will have to keep that in mind.
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[pinnockio]

Hello,

Nop, AMD-k6 are still i586. I686 starts for AMD from the duron and Athlon. Be aware of this if you later would reinstall Gentoo >1.4rc with pre-compiled binaries for i586,i686, athlon etc.

Before the pentium, cpu-architectures of the same family were referenced to by i386 or i486. Every major change in the architecture involved a change in this number. But they couldn't obtain a trademark for this naming, because the US trademark office doesn't allow numbers to be trademarked. That is why thy start using pentium to refer to this fifth generation of processors (penta > greek > fife). Since then they used variants of this name.

Going from x486 to petium introced some changes in architecture for speed, but no major changes in the processesors instruction set. This radical change and addition to the instruction set was done with the PentiumPro and this one is informally referred as the i686-architecture. The pentiumMMX, pentiumII and pentiumIII only introduced some new instructions/ implementation changes for vector-representation of integers or floating-points and on-chip implementations (eg. as of the pentiumIII the L2 cache resides on the die itself)/ amount of transistors.

The athlon can be seen as a new radical change in architecture, because of the large number of instructions added and amount of transistors on the chip. This architecture of processors is referred to as the 7th generation. So each new generation (6, 7th etc.) involves a major change in processor design.

So why is the AMD-K6 on one hand a 6th generation cpu and on the other hand a 5th generation? A major change from the 5th to the sixth generation were the MMX-instructions and the ISA and MSR instructions. AMD implements the first, but not the latter. So from a programmers point of view an AMD-K6 is more a pentium (i586) than a pentium pro (and unfortunately compilers favorize intel style optimization). That is why it is better to talk about 386, 486 and from then forget about the i586 and talk about the pentium/pentium pro/pentium mmx/pentium II/pentium III and pentium IV and amd-k5/amd-k6/athlon.

I hope this will have shed some light on your confusion (and sometimes mine ).


Kind regards,

A belgian Gentoo user

[pinnockio]

Hello,

By the way use
cat /proc/cpuinfo and look at family, you will see a five listed

Kind regards,

A belgian Gentoo user

[BlackSoul]

Thanks for the info, pinnockio. Very informative.
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[Isaiah]

[frenkel]

[Lycander]

[Korean Ian]

Also if you didn't enable Toshiba laptop support when you compile the kernel.

Regards,
KI