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
