Hi again,
I have a little question about the standard rh installer, regarding a little problem I had.
In RH9, the installer kernel is compiled for i686 (RH8 was i386). Since this is not a bad thing, It kinda gives some problems sometimes when installing on certain systems. For example: The installer-kernel kept on crashing when trying to do an install on my little home server, which has a Via C3 processor (you know, soldered on one of those sweet mini-itx boards), which does not support the i686 instruction set (almost, but it doesn't support the 'cmov' instruction).
I was wondering if it would be possible to keep the option open to install future redhats on older systems? I think this would be a "good thing"(tm), since not everyone uses high-end machines. (also: think of people in developing countries, who can use the latest and greatest os features, without having to spend a fortune on the latest/greatest machines.)
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:11, david paeme wrote:
In RH9, the installer kernel is compiled for i686 (RH8 was i386). Since this is not a bad thing, It kinda gives some problems sometimes when installing on certain systems. For example: The installer-kernel kept on crashing when trying to do an install on my little home server, which has a Via C3 processor (you know, soldered on one of those sweet mini-itx boards), which does not support the i686 instruction set (almost, but it doesn't support the 'cmov' instruction).
The kernel on the CD is the i586 kernel with ACPI turned on. Not the i686. The kernel on bootdisk.img is the i386 BOOT kernel without ACPI. If you boot from CD with 'acpi=off', does it work better?
Jeremy
that's strange...
I'm not getting any error directly related to power management... the system kinda hangs on hd errors... (hard to recall which exactly)
but to be honest, I really didn't investigate matters deeply, I went back to running rh8, because I wanted the system up fast...
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:38, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:11, david paeme wrote:
In RH9, the installer kernel is compiled for i686 (RH8 was i386). Since this is not a bad thing, It kinda gives some problems sometimes when installing on certain systems. For example: The installer-kernel kept on crashing when trying to do an install on my little home server, which has a Via C3 processor (you know, soldered on one of those sweet mini-itx boards), which does not support the i686 instruction set (almost, but it doesn't support the 'cmov' instruction).
The kernel on the CD is the i586 kernel with ACPI turned on. Not the i686. The kernel on bootdisk.img is the i386 BOOT kernel without ACPI. If you boot from CD with 'acpi=off', does it work better?
Jeremy
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:40:36AM +0200, david paeme wrote:
I'm not getting any error directly related to power management... the system kinda hangs on hd errors... (hard to recall which exactly)
The "C" in "ACPI" stands for "Configuration" -- the ACPI in Severn doesn't have the power management stuff, it is only for the device enumeration parts. This includes interrupt routing, which means that anything that relies on interrupts (i.e. most device drivers) can fail to work if there's a bug there.
That's why we keep asking whether "acpi=off" fixes problems, and if not, whether booting with the floppy image does.
michaelkjohnson
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