Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Kirk Bocek <t004@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> That's what I thought too. I had wanted to run i386 for compatibility.
>> But as I mentioned to Brian J. Smith off-list, both KnoppMyth and
>> CentoOS4.1 i386 hung when booting off of the install disk. Whereas
>> CentoOS4.1 x86_64 installed without complaint.
>>
>> Can anyone come up with a reason x86_64 would boot but i386 wouldn't?
>
>
> Could be hole lot of things. Most likely something is weird with your
> BIOS or
> motherboard. The CPU as such shouldn't be a problem. When you say "hung",
> does it load the kernel and initrd images at all? Does the kernel
> starts? Are
> you getting kernel panic? Is initrd stuff freaking out? Installer
> hungs? They
> are all on different levels, and might point to different things going
> wrong.
>
It always happened fairly far into the boot process. KnoppMyth would hang just after
"Detecting Hardware". Sometimes (but not always) it would give a kernel panic. I
tried the 'failsafe' boot with the same result. I'd have to reboot CentOS to see
exactly where it was happening but CentOS would always panic with a whole bunch of
register dumps and so forth that would scroll off the screen.
x86_64 had been rock-solid for almost a week now.
Kirk
