Hi,
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:38 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
Hi all,
I have been trying to get a usb stick 8G to boot centos. I am as far a it boots and hangs at "Switching to new root".
I take the same USB stick and put it another PC and it boots fine.
What might I look for as to why the machine hangs at switching to new root?
Of course the machines are different. The one that does not boot is an ebox 2300sx and the one that does boot is an amd 4800+ with all disks unplugged except the USB stick.
I am sooooo close.
Looks like the ebox 2300sx has a Vortex86sx chip, which is i486 compatible, not i686 like a default CentOS install/live. You might have to compile a new kernel for i486 architecture or use a different distro which is directly i486 compatible.
Regards, Michel
p.s. getting this to work on a 2300sx might be a challenge :) But CentOS doesn't support the i486. So you're on your own ;)