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...
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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."
Ok, so when grub tell you what it's going to boot, hit <e>, then choose the non-PAE kernel, and see what happens. Not sure why it installed a PAE kernel, if it can't boot it.... <snip> mark