[K12OSN] SL 6 no cmov support in kernel

[William Fragakis]

Barry,
Are you sure it's not an i686 issue? Have you tried the F11 kernel for
the client? F11 was the last i386 compliant Fedora version. 

http://askubuntu.com/questions/5807/what-is-the-significance-of-the-cmov-cpu-instruction

regards,
William

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 12:00 -0500, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:19:50 -0600
> From: Barry Cisna <cisna-barry at wc235.k12.il.us>
> To: K12LTSP Mailing List <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: [K12OSN] SL 6 no cmov support in kernel
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> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Just wanted to report this somewhat unknown non-available feature in
> default kernel in SL6. When trying to boot the Ebox 2300 TC's we have
> we
> receive this when PXE starts to run on the TC and then stops.
> "This kernel requires the following features not present on the cpu.
> cmov".
> 
> I have found several reports somewhat similar in nature only the error
> is no PAE support in kernel.
> 
> Take Care,
> BC
> 
>