[plug] Moving Linux

[John Usher (Maptek)]

G'day...

Unsurprisingly, there's no way the i686 kernel will work on a celeron!

If the kernel gets a bus error within a bus error (ie illegal
instruction causes panic causes illegal instruction) the results will
not be good ;-)

If you can get the i386 kernel into /boot and then lilo using that you
may well be OK.

j.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Barbara [mailto:andrew at mailerdirect.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2002 4:56 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Moving Linux


The symtpom is that the system comes out of the BIOS and comes up with 
the 
pretty RedHat screen, then the next thing it says "loading linux" and
does 
the dot thing then re-boots.  
we have booted to the RH rescue disk and ran lilo (chrooted) but that
made 
no difference.
could it be the athlon/i686 kernel with this symptom? ie no panics?

Andrew

ps yes sorry about that it is not an ATA-33/66/100/133 system




On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> > does anyone know of any reason why if i install RH7.3 on a brand new
hard 
> > drive inside of an AMD 700 using ATA (using one of those high
density 
> > cables) and then remove the hard drive and put it in a celeron 333
on a 
> > non ATA system?  
> 
> Well, if its non-ATA you won't be able to plug the drive in (eg SCSI, 
> MFM, RLL). If you mean its not ATA-33/66/100/133 and doesn't use 
> 80-conductor cables, thats a non-issue.
> 
> However, you will probably need to boot from a floppy disk and run 
> LILO/GRUB from there to get a bootable system, as the BIOS disk
mapping 
> will quite likely change.
> 
> Oh, and make sure you have the i686 kernel set as the default to boot,

> not one for athlon or athlon-xp unless you like the look of kernel
panics.
> 
>