Re: Pentium bug Q

To: ruedas@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de (Thomas Ruedas)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Pentium bug Q
From: shaleh@clifford.livenet.net
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:30:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199904161330.JAA12178@clifford.livenet.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 37173894.6201@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de> from "Thomas Ruedas" at Apr 16, 99 03:18:12 pm

> 
> 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.

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