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 ;)