Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Quoting Kirk Bocek t004@kbocek.com:
That's what I thought too. I had wanted to run i386 for compatibility. But as I mentioned to Brian J. Smith off-list, both KnoppMyth and CentoOS4.1 i386 hung when booting off of the install disk. Whereas CentoOS4.1 x86_64 installed without complaint.
Can anyone come up with a reason x86_64 would boot but i386 wouldn't?
Could be hole lot of things. Most likely something is weird with your BIOS or motherboard. The CPU as such shouldn't be a problem. When you say "hung", does it load the kernel and initrd images at all? Does the kernel starts? Are you getting kernel panic? Is initrd stuff freaking out? Installer hungs? They are all on different levels, and might point to different things going wrong.
It always happened fairly far into the boot process. KnoppMyth would hang just after "Detecting Hardware". Sometimes (but not always) it would give a kernel panic. I tried the 'failsafe' boot with the same result. I'd have to reboot CentOS to see exactly where it was happening but CentOS would always panic with a whole bunch of register dumps and so forth that would scroll off the screen.
x86_64 had been rock-solid for almost a week now.
Kirk