Dreaming in CODE ~ /gavin/

The flags in /proc/cpuinfo tells us what extra instructions the processor has to offer. This is a listing of flags with a short explanation of each. There is an even shorter explanation in the file “/usr/include/asm/cpufeature.h”.

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 server on a Virtualbox machine and when I tried to boot it for the first time I got this error, “Panic: CPU too old for this kernel”. Apparently Virtualbox does not support guest PAE. To fix it I had to boot up to the install cd and go into “rescue [...]