[TriLUG] Troubled RH9

[Joseph Tate]

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-bootopts.html 
says that you can pass noathlon to the installer, i.e. linux text 
noathlon to disable athlon optimizations.  That might just get you far 
enough.  There are plenty of other options there too.

joseph

Ken Wahl wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:25:17PM -0400, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> 
>>Hey guys just an update, I went back to RH8 and everything worked fine, 
>>this time i decided to do a Dual boot and i do believe I have discovered 
>>what the problem is.  Apparantly the machine I have is an AMD duron 
>>processor based machine, with a VIA motherboard, its a Compaq Presario.  
>>For some reason RH9 wishes to load and install the Athlon kernel, RH8 
>>does not do this when i type uname -a it comes up as an unknown, SuSE 
>>and Debian also list it as an unknown.  My question is how do i get RH9 
>>to install a different kernel and which kernel would I need to install 
>>instead of the Athlon?
>>
> 
> 
> The answer to part 2 of your question is i686.  The first part I don't
> know how to answer as when I do an install of Red Hat on my Athlon XP
> 2000+ it always defaults to a i386 install of the kernel.  Later I
> upgrade it with
> 
> rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.xx.xx.athlon.rpm
> 
> After downloading the appropriate kernel, of course.