Quoting Björn Persson (2019-04-28 18:43:48) > I have a small server with a Geode processor – Geode LX 500 MHz > according to the BIOS boot screen – which I needed to upgrade from > Debian 8 to Debian 9. I know that Debian has dropped support for i586, > but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to how that > affects Geodes. What little I could find on the Web seemed to suggest > that Geodes are mostly like i686, which is supposed to still be > supported by Debian 9, so I decided to try it, took a backup, and took > the plunge. > > It turns out that the kernel from Debian 9 won't boot. Both Linux > 4.9.0-8-686 and 4.9.0-9-686 appear to hang early in the boot process. > Everything else seems to work, so right now I'm running Debian 9 on > Linux 3.16.0-8-586 from Debian 8. This works for now, but it's > obviously not a long-term solution. > > So my question is: Is the Geode LX among the dropped processors, or is > the hang a bug that should be fixed?
The officially supported CPUs - and how to check if yours is covered: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.da.html#i386-is-now-almost-i686 Some background on why the cut is there exactly: https://lists.debian.org/20161017131747.wbvvhjemegs43...@bunk.spdns.de - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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