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.
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