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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fritz Whittington Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:52 AM To: jh@xxxxxxx; 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)
