Fedora Core 2 and EPIA M 10000 Motherboard Fails to boot from Rescue CD

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:58, David Woakes wrote:
> I created a FC2 rescue disk and tried to boot from it.  It shows the 
> splash screen (badly, some text missing, but I have the same issue with 
> FC1 install disks).  I hit return (out of hope!) and it seemed to load 
> the kernel only to reboot immediately.
> 
> I had earlier installed the 2.6 Kernel in the test area FC1 and had the 
> same issue (immediate reboot).
> 
> Any ideas on things to try ?  I'm thinking to try creating a custom 2.6 
> kernel to see if I can figure out the issue...
> 
> I've seen this sort of thing in the past and it usually relates to 
> booting a kernel built for a different processor.  I had tried using an 
> Epia board with an Eden 633 Mhz processor with an i686 kernel and that 
> rebooted like this but switching to an i586 solved this problem 
> (although I then had a hang later on after freeing Kernel memory which I 
> never resolved).

As long as the 586 is getting installed, then it should be ok.
The 586 kernel is compiled with -march=i586

	Dave