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I have an older AMD Athlon K which I'd like to revive into a linux machine . At boot I get an error which more of less stipulatesI should 'use ...
  1. 05-23-2010 #1
    davidclark
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    I have an older AMD Athlon K which I'd like to revive into a linux machine .
    At boot I get an error which more of less stipulatesI should 'use a distro with a kernal familiar with this CPU'.


    Anyone know of a distrol which with tolerate this chip?

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    Just curious about what version of what distro you downloaded and tried to install. Did you pick the amd_64 version or the i386 version? Also what distro?

    You might wanna try

    http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...86-kernel.html
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