the installer...

[david paeme]

that's strange...

I'm not getting any error directly related to power management...
the system kinda hangs on hd errors... (hard to recall which exactly)

but to be honest, I really didn't investigate matters deeply, I went
back to running rh8, because I wanted the system up fast...

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:38, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:11, david paeme wrote:
> > In RH9, the installer kernel is compiled for i686 (RH8 was i386). Since
> > this is not a bad thing, It kinda gives some problems sometimes when
> > installing on certain systems.
> > For example: The installer-kernel kept on crashing when trying to do an
> > install on my little home server, which has a Via C3 processor (you
> > know, soldered on one of those sweet mini-itx boards), which does not
> > support the i686 instruction set (almost, but it doesn't support the
> > 'cmov' instruction).
> 
> The kernel on the CD is the i586 kernel with ACPI turned on.  Not the
> i686.  The kernel on bootdisk.img is the i386 BOOT kernel without ACPI. 
> If you boot from CD with 'acpi=off', does it work better?
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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