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... >> >> > What does "it wouldn't take" means? Can you give us some better idea? > details. > Could it be just a graphic mode? > Did you try to change kernel parameters? Was there any error shown? > > What were exact models involved so we can see hardware involved? 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." I don't even know how to tell what kernel a prospective download has. I do know that some of my other PCs list kernels with and without "PAE" in the grub display. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.