I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. Not finding it though.
Can someone point me to it. Thanks,
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. Not finding it though.
Can someone point me to it. Thanks,
Jerry
There is currently no serverCD for CentOS 5.1, but you can install from just the first CD if that helps. See here:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5#head-c79c201900d22f163a445f134fcc6c916eb3...
Jerry Geis wrote:
/ I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors.
/>/ Not finding it though. />/ />/ Can someone point me to it. Thanks, />/ />/ Jerry /
There is currently no serverCD for CentOS 5.1, but you can install from just the first CD if that helps. See here:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5#head-c79c201900d22f163a445f134fcc6c916eb3...
I grabbed the first CD and tried booting. no luck at this point.
I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. This unit has a vortex86 CPU. When installing the unit finds the USB cdrom I type "linux text" and it starts vlinuz... init.... Screen goes black and the unit reboots.
I also tried with acpi=off.
Any ideas on getting anaconda to come up on this ebox unit?
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. This unit has a vortex86 CPU. When installing the unit finds the USB cdrom I type "linux text" and it starts vlinuz... init.... Screen goes black and the unit reboots.
Sounds like an i586 CPU which is not supported by CentOS 5. You'd probably have better luck with CentOS 4.
Cheers,
Ralph
Jerry Geis wrote:
/ I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit.
/>/ This unit has a vortex86 CPU. />/ When installing the unit finds the USB cdrom I type "linux text" and it />/ starts />/ vlinuz... />/ init.... />/ Screen goes black and the unit reboots. / Sounds like an i586 CPU which is not supported by CentOS 5. You'd probably have better luck with CentOS 4.
Cheers,
Ralph
Ralph,
I thought if it is a 586 CPU it should run 386 code right? So I didnt think there should be an issue there...
I can see not being able to run 586 code on a 386 but the other way around should be ok.
Jerry
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
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/>/ I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. /http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ?
you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... is the cpu i686 compatible?
Tru
Tru,
yes this is the box I am trying to install on...
I dont know if its i686, either way I thought i386 should work. I am I wrong?
Is it the 128M memory issue? I thought I used to install with that much - especially in text mode.
Any suggestions.
Jerry
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:38:38PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: ...
yes this is the box I am trying to install on...
I dont know if its i686, either way I thought i386 should work. I am I wrong?
yes, the i686 has some additionnal instructions that a i586 does not have. I have no idea about the cpu listed there.
Try C4 with the i586 or i686 (default) version. You will be fixed. C5 does not support i586 class cpu. There was a thread about it some days/weeks ago. Not much volonteer to do/support it and the CentOS team has other priorities ;).
Is it the 128M memory issue? I thought I used to install with that much
- especially in text mode.
it's below the minimal recommended size (256MB). It may work, I haven't tried.
Cheers,
Tru
Jerry Geis wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
/ />/ I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit.
/http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ?
you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... is the cpu i686 compatible?
yes this is the box I am trying to install on...
I dont know if its i686, either way I thought i386 should work. I am I wrong?
None of the RHEL branches support any processors that are < i686 for the i386 arch.
CentOS supports i586 in centOS-3 and CentOS-4 (things not in RHEL) .. and only i686 in CentOS-2 and CentOS-5 (just like RHEL).
So, NO ... and i586 processor will not run CentOS-5.
Is it the 128M memory issue? I thought I used to install with that much
- especially in text mode.
Any suggestions.
doing some research ... this is a pentium mmx compatible chip, which is i586 ... you can use CentOS-4 on there.
Jerry Geis wrote:
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/>>/ On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: />>/ >/ />/ I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. />>/ /http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ? />>/ />>/ you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... />>/ is the cpu i686 compatible? />/ /
/ yes this is the box I am trying to install on...
/>/ />/ I dont know if its i686, either way I thought i386 should work. I am I />/ wrong? / None of the RHEL branches support any processors that are < i686 for the i386 arch.
CentOS supports i586 in centOS-3 and CentOS-4 (things not in RHEL) .. and only i686 in CentOS-2 and CentOS-5 (just like RHEL).
So, NO ... and i586 processor will not run CentOS-5.
/
/>/ Is it the 128M memory issue? I thought I used to install with that much />/ - especially in text mode. />/ />/ Any suggestions. / doing some research ... this is a pentium mmx compatible chip, which is i586 ... you can use CentOS-4 on there.
I just tried my old centos 4.4 i386 disk 1 did "linux text mem=128M" and the same thing. after vmlinuz.., and initrd... it just resets.
Am I not boot with the correct options to get the 386 kernel and its trying to use the 686 kernel?
Thanks,
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
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/>>/ On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: />>/ >/ />/ I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit. />>/ /http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ? />>/ />>/ you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... />>/ is the cpu i686 compatible? />/ /
/ yes this is the box I am trying to install on...
/>/ />/ I dont know if its i686, either way I thought i386 should work. I am I />/ wrong? / None of the RHEL branches support any processors that are < i686 for the i386 arch.
CentOS supports i586 in centOS-3 and CentOS-4 (things not in RHEL) .. and only i686 in CentOS-2 and CentOS-5 (just like RHEL).
So, NO ... and i586 processor will not run CentOS-5.
/ />/ Is it the 128M memory issue? I thought I used to install with
that much />/ - especially in text mode. />/ />/ Any suggestions. / doing some research ... this is a pentium mmx compatible chip, which is i586 ... you can use CentOS-4 on there.
I just tried my old centos 4.4 i386 disk 1 did "linux text mem=128M" and the same thing. after vmlinuz.., and initrd... it just resets.
Am I not boot with the correct options to get the 386 kernel and its trying to use the 686 kernel?
now do:
i586 text mem=128
:D
Jerry Geis wrote:
now do:
i586 text mem=128
when I do "i586 text mem=128" it says cant find kernel so I do "linux i586 text mem=128" and I get the same behavior Loading vmlinuz.... Loading initrd.... and reboot.
Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet?
Are you sure this is a CD-1 and not a ServerCD ???
i586 text
THAT should work
Jerry Geis wrote:
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/>>/ now do: />>/ />>/ i586 text mem=128 />>/ />>/ />/ when I do "i586 text mem=128" it says cant find kernel />/ so I do "linux i586 text mem=128" and I get the same behavior />/ Loading vmlinuz.... />/ Loading initrd.... />/ and reboot. />/ />/ Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet? />/ / Are you sure this is a CD-1 and not a ServerCD ???
i586 text
THAT should work
Sure enough I had the centos 4 server CD, I looked deaper and got the CD disk 1 out of my pack and "i586 text" does a BUNCH more... thanks.
Now I see on the screen that hda is discovered on the IDE interface as a 1 GIG device. The last 2 lines printed are:
Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block (8,3) kernel panic not syncing unable to mount root.
What do I do with that?
Everything above that looks normal as detect PS/2 etc...
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
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/>>/ now do: />>/ />>/ i586 text mem=128 />>/ />>/ />/ when I do "i586 text mem=128" it says cant find kernel />/ so I do "linux i586 text mem=128" and I get the same behavior />/ Loading vmlinuz.... />/ Loading initrd.... />/ and reboot. />/ />/ Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet? />/ / Are you sure this is a CD-1 and not a ServerCD ???
i586 text
THAT should work
Sure enough I had the centos 4 server CD, I looked deaper and got the CD disk 1 out of my pack and "i586 text" does a BUNCH more... thanks.
Now I see on the screen that hda is discovered on the IDE interface as a 1 GIG device. The last 2 lines printed are:
Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block (8,3) kernel panic not syncing unable to mount root.
What do I do with that?
Everything above that looks normal as detect PS/2 etc...
Jerry
I am booting now with "i586 text mem=128M root=/dev/hda"
and I am well into the menus of installing now...
Thanks all for the suggestions.
Jerry
on 5-29-2008 11:52 AM Jerry Geis spake the following:
Jerry Geis wrote:
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/>>/ now do: />>/ />>/ i586 text mem=128 />>/ />>/ />/ when I do "i586 text mem=128" it says cant find kernel />/ so I do "linux i586 text mem=128" and I get the same behavior />/ Loading vmlinuz.... />/ Loading initrd.... />/ and reboot. />/ />/ Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet? />/ / Are you sure this is a CD-1 and not a ServerCD ???
i586 text
THAT should work
Sure enough I had the centos 4 server CD, I looked deaper and got the CD disk 1 out of my pack and "i586 text" does a BUNCH more... thanks.
Now I see on the screen that hda is discovered on the IDE interface as a 1 GIG device. The last 2 lines printed are:
Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block (8,3) kernel panic not syncing unable to mount root.
What do I do with that?
Everything above that looks normal as detect PS/2 etc...
Jerry
It must be either the hardware or a bad disc as I just did a quick install in vmware with 128 Mgs of ram and it went OK.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46:53AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
I am trying to install centos i386 on a ebox 2300 unit.
http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx ?
you won't make it with only 128 MB of RAM... is the cpu i686 compatible?
Tru
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