SOLVED: Change of Intel to AMD motherboard

[Rick Lim]

After fooling around with the grub command line
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
and changing it to
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
it finally booted and stopped at the freeing XXX memory portion, then after
a bit of searching on the net I loaded the 386 version of glibc and it
finally booted all the way, still have other minor problems but at least it
booted all the way.

Thanks to all that helped.


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Rick Lim
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:01 AM
To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
Subject: RE: Change of Intel to AMD motherboard

I installed the 586 kernel package from the CD's and got further into the
boot, now it gets past the initrd portion and stops/hangs at the redhat nash
portion.

I'm further along but not quite there yet.

Any more ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Fritz Whittington
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:52 AM
To: jh at 333.org; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Change of Intel to AMD motherboard

On or about 2004-09-28 07:57, Jim Higson whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
and scribbled:

>On Monday 27 Sep 2004 08:08, Rick Lim wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi there, I have a running FC2 on a Intel 233mhz motherboard, I want to
>>move it to an AMD-K6-2/500 motherboard but it will not boot.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to make this run on the AMD
>>motherboard.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I've done a similar thing a few times with no problems,
>
>Binaries from the main repositories are all i386, so unless you've been 
>installing packages specially compiled for your system I doubt there'll be
a 
>problem there.
>
Almost, but not quite, true.  If you look at the files on the first 
distribution CD, you'll notice that there are two sets of kernels, smp 
and not-smp.  Each set has a 586 and a 686 version.  The appropriate one 
will be installed.

If you have a Pentium II or higher, then the 686 version will be 
installed.  If you then move that drive to a machine which only has the 
586 instruction set, it's not going to work. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives
advantage to the danger. (Francis Quarles)



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