Beartooth wrote:
> 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...
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> 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."
Ok, so when grub tell you what it's going to boot, hit <e>, then choose
the non-PAE kernel, and see what happens. Not sure why it installed a PAE
kernel, if it can't boot it....
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