Re: Unable to install RHEL3 U9 on a AM2-based Mainboard

[John Morris <jmorris beau org>]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 05:01, Andre Schubert wrote:

> i recently bought a mainboard with an AM2-socket.
> Everytime i try to install RHEL3 U9 i got a kernel-panic during booting.
> The kernel-panic is always the same and always reproducible.

Which motherboard and chipset?  And 32-bit or 64-bit RHEL? I have had a
heck of a time loading ANY 64 bit OS on an otherwise nice Gigabyte
GA-M61PM-S2 with an NForce 430 chipset.  And no luck at all on RHEL3/4
of any bitness.

And when I say I can't get ANY 64-bit OS to load I mean I have tried
FC5/6, F7, Debian 4.0, RHEL3, RHEL4 (Actually WBEL4), RHEL5 RC2 and
failed every time.  32-bit versions of RHEL5RC2, Debian 4.0 and FC6 work
but 32bit F7 also doesn't install.

Earlier I had better luck installing on an ASUS M2V-MX but RHEL5R2 would
lock up if left alone for a few hours and nothing I did could stop it. 
FC6 worked.  But since I plan on deploying on WBEL5-32bit (RHEL5 respun)
I went went with the Gigabyte boards since 32bit appears to be stable.

So yea, I feel your pain.   Such is the issues we must face, vendors and
chipset makers don't give half a crap about Linux and less than that
about 64bit (Windows or Linux).  Buy one and test the heck out of it,
then either repeat with something else or buy more of that if it
actually works... until you buy more of the exact same SKU and get a
'revised' board that isn't remotely the same thing.  :(

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