> > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > I have a rather old machine with an Intel Pentium 100 MHz, but I never > saw such a message before. > Thanks,
By a sequence of steps if an app has the F0 0F instruction it will completely freeze your com,puter. Chip simply stops. www.rootshell.com prolly has info on this.