DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

Alex Hewitt hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Mon Apr 27 19:34:30 EDT 2009


Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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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Here's a writeup on the Phenom processors and a description of the tlb bug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenom_(processor)

-Alex



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