topic Re: 2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines in Operating System - Linux

2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines

Chakravarthi — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:01:39 GMT

Does anyone installed 2.2.14-6.1.1 ( redhat 6.2) on pentium 4 machines,

help required

thanks
chakri

Re: 2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines

Stuart Browne — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:09:36 GMT

Any particular reason you are trying to use such an archaic distribution on such new hardware?

Unless the kernel was specifically compiled for a given CPU class, it should work. Even if it was compiled for i[356]86 specific, it should still work.

Whilst the P4 added a swag load of new instructions, it is fully backwards compatable.

What errors are you getting at what point?

It sounds like you've upgraded an old system, so it's probably more of an 'initrd' driver problem than a CPU incompatability.

Re: 2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines

Chakravarthi — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:33:54 GMT

installation is not happening, the basic problem is it cant detect the architecture

Re: 2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines

Stuart Browne — Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:04:13 GMT

Ok, so you're trying to *INSTALL* RH6.2 on a P4 machine.

Why?

I fail to think of even *ONE* good reason too.

Re: 2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines

Stuart Browne — Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:04:26 GMT

Ok, so you're trying to *INSTALL* RH6.2 on a P4 machine.

Why?

I fail to think of even *ONE* good reason to.

Re: 2.2.14 kernel on P4 machines

dirk dierickx — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 06:52:33 GMT

The installation failing on your P4 machine of rh6.2 is probably because it can't detect your hardware properly, the chipsets used by the p4 were not yet available at the time of the 2.2.x kernels.
however this is just guessing, maybe you can post your error messages here so we can take a closer look.
although i must agree that you're better of with rh7.2/7.3 since it contains several advantages missing from previous releases.