Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Kirk Bocek <t004 at 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