DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Apr 27 15:25:09 EDT 2009
Alex Hewitt wrote:
>
> Just an update - the system that I was trying to install various 64 bit
> Linux distros also wouldn't install Vista 64. Turns out the processor I
> was using has some kind of TLB bug (AMD Phenom X4 9600).
Oh, haha, yeah, that tlb erratum was a nasty one... Prices on the 9x00
series Phenom all dropped quite a bit after that one was discovered, and
they were quickly replaced by 9x50 Phenoms, but they still sold the ones
already out to resellers... (iirc).
--jarod
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