Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Sam Varghese wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:02:32PM +1000 Dean Hamstead said:
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> > On Sun, August 6, 2006 1:27 pm, Sam Varghese wrote:
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> > > I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a generic kernel for the last six
> > > months:
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> > > sam@zizyphus:~$ uname -a
> > > Linux zizyphus 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic #1 Sun Jul 16 01:12:23 CEST 2006
> > > x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> > > Today I was just wondering if the amd64-k8 kernel wouldn't be more suited
> > > for this processor.
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> > K8 is the correct kernel for AMD cpus
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> > Dean
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> Is the changeover as simple as installing the following:
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> linux-image-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8
> linux-headers-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8
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> and then updating grub?
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No.

Grub updates itself Whenever a new linux-image is installed or removed. 
Skip the last step.