Problem with Livecd and i586
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Jun 17 12:25:27 UTC 2009
Mike Martin wrote:
> hi
>
> I have created a specialised spin of fedora 11, both gnome and XFCE,
> which work fine on my desktop (a P4). However when I try to boot on an
> old laptop, a K6/2 500 mhz, it fails at boot with
>
> IO APIC resources could not be allocated
> Kernel Panic - not syncinging: attempted to kill init
>
> I have tried noapic and noacpi - no diiference
>
> The laptop boots puppy fine
>
> So any idea what the issue is here
>
> Any help appreciated
>
I believe you need i686 or better to run f11. I suppose you could recompile
everything for [345]86 processor, but I don't think it comes that way. And there
may be some assumptions in scripts and commands that certain features are present.
Good to know puppy works, I have an old laptop.
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