On 12/05/2011 04:52 PM, Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:53:29 +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Vreme: 12/05/2011 01:33 AM, Phil Dobbin piše:
By co-incidence, as Beartooth posted earlier, I also tried to install CentOS 6 on a ThinkPad but it wouldn't take. I used to have a copy of a CentOS 5.7 Live CD& that worked O.K. on an old Pentium IV i386 so I'm hoping it'll work on the ThinkPad. Odd really. The ThinkPad has twice the RAM of the Pentium& they're great laptops...
What does "it wouldn't take" means? Can you give us some better idea? details. Could it be just a graphic mode? Did you try to change kernel parameters? Was there any error shown?
What were exact models involved so we can see hardware involved?
I have news that may be relevant. After I wiped my refurbished IBM T42 Thinkpad with DBAN, I tried the live DVD+R for CentOS 6.0 that had worked on my old PC. It failed yet again -- but this time the error message is different.
It says "This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae Unable to boot -- please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."
I don't even know how to tell what kernel a prospective download has. I do know that some of my other PCs list kernels with and without "PAE" in the grub display.
PAE means physical address extension and allows 32bit cpus to make use of memory beyond the 4gb limit addressable with 32bit.
Centos/RHEL 6 doesn't support cpus without this as it's hard to come by a machine these days that doesn't have this extension.
So basically your hardware is too old to run Centos 6.
Regards, Dennis