On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:34:10 -0500, Brian Ashe <rhlist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
On Tuesday March 21, 2006 5:15 pm, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote:
Hi,
...better info....
I've been using RedHat 9 successfully for years on a 350 Mhz cpu, but
the
Socket 7 mother board gave out.
I upgraded to a 2.93 Mhz athalon with a new box and motherboard.
It runs just fine on the 2.4.20-43.9.legacy i586 kernel, but the cpu is
now an i686, so I wanted to update.
I tried to update my kernel to the i686 version, but got a slew of
errors,
so I waited until another update was available.
Next I installed the 2.4.20-46.9.legacy i686 kernel.
RPM -ivh reported that it was unable to erase /tmp/initrd.mnt.d9ahz0.
That directory appears to be empty.
The i586 kernel works just fine, but the i686 kernel won't boot.
The system halts with the following:
Code: ff 50 10 eb d0 eb 0d 90 90 90 ...
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
<3>pc_keyb: Controller jammed (0x15).
I've searched for the message, but found suggestions of hardware
problems.
Since the system runs just fine on the i586 kernel I'm inclined to think
it's not hardware.
Some claim Redhat 9 is just to old for new hot hardware, but that
doesn't
explain why it runs just fine on the i586 kernel.
Can anyone suggest what might be done to try to get a boot?
Since you don't have an i686 (that's Intel) why not try the Athlon
kernel and
see if that helps.
The kernel-2.4.20-46.9.legacy.athlon.rpm is available at
fedoralegacy.org.
Hi Brian,
Thanks.
Oops - I can't read!
I tried installing that kernel, and rpm reported that I don't have an
athalon.
I don't know why my 62 year old memory has flaws, but it apparently does.
My new cpu is actually an Intel Celeron D 340 2.93Ghz processor,
and the old kernel reports it as an i686,
so I still have the same problem.
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