On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > looks like your machine does not have the x86_64 capable cpu/bios combo > needed to boot the kernel. Have you tried using the livecd/dvd to boot > the machine and see if things work there ? I'll try booting off DVD next, thanks. I'm surprised there is no error message to give the user a clue of what's going wrong... > was it x86_64 that you were running CentOS-5 with ? Yes, it was. Thanks, Aleksey