Change of Intel to AMD motherboard
Rick Lim
ricklim at telus.net
Thu Sep 30 13:01:11 UTC 2004
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
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advantage to the danger. (Francis Quarles)
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