[CentOS] CentOS4_64 On Dell

[Ho Chaw Ming]

Intel has a new line of Xeons which have EM64T support. Don't assume and let
your ignorance show. 

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_1850?c=us
&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Denny Prasetya
Sent: 03 May 2005 14:09
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS4_64 On Dell

Who told you that Xeon is 64bit CPU? Read it again carefully in the
specs about Xeon.

-denny

On 5/3/05, Ho Chaw Ming <chawming at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just got a Dell Dual Xeon 64bit 3.2ghz, Poweredge 1850, with Dual SCSI
> 143GB harddisk.
> 
> I tried installing CentOs 4_64 on it. But apparently, I can't even get the
> CentOs 4_64 installer to start i.e. it does not get to the blue text based
> menu system. It fails shortly after the kernel boots and mounts the root
> device (the initrd ram disk installer image). This installer has been
> verified with the GPG key.
> 
> Have anyone came across the same issue?
> 
> Any recommendations on how to fix this?
> 
> Regards
> Chaw Ming
> 
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