[ILUG] Architecture crossover trouble w RH7.2

[Anders Holm]

Hi Conor.

 From the top of my head, I believe the Celeron is recognised as an i686
arch, whereas the K6-2 is a i586 arch. That's why you have this problem.
Re-install it as a i586/i386 system instead, and you'd be fine.

Best Regards

Anders Holm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Conor
> Daly
> Sent: 24 July 2002 12:17
> To: ILUG main list
> Subject: [ILUG] Architecture crossover trouble w RH7.2
>
>
> And it's not that much different architecture...
>
> I'm building a server for someone but have only got a HD at present (I'll
> be building the box itself later).  I installed RH7.2 onto this disk
> running on an Intel Celeron processor.  Recently I moved the disk
> over to an
> AMD based box (K6-2 chip) and it won't boot.  I get LILO, it starts
> loading the kernel, starts to uncompress and reboots.  It'll keep doing
> this indefinitely.  I booted from the AMD's own hd, copied its kernel and
> initrd.img across to the server HD, added that to lilo and rebooted.  this
> time the kernel boots, starts doing all its boot time stuff, gets to the
> "Freeing unused kernel memory" message and freezes (It'll reboot on a
> <CTRL><ALT><DEL>).  The next stage in a normal boot is "Running init" so
> there must be something there.  It's not panicing "init not found" and a
> diff on /sbin/init between each disk returns matching files.  I'm not sure
> where to look next.  Any clue?
>
> BTW, the kernels in question are the stock RH7.2 2.4.7-10 kernels on each
> of the AMD and Intel disks.  Would it be simply a matter of "rpm -ivh
> <correct_arch_kernel.rpm>" to install both kernels?
>
> I had a similar problem when I tried to put the Celeron based disk into a
> Pentium machine...
>
> Conor
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