P4-CPU/NoBoot

P4-CPU/NoBoot

[Richard B. Johnson]

I tried to install RH 7.0 on a new box this
week-end:

	Motherboard MSI 648 Max
	CPU Intel P4 2.8 GHz
	Memory 1024 MB PC-333 DDR

It doesn't boot far enough to get any diagnostic
information. It stops.  I drove the 40 miles to
civilization and retrieved a "boot anything" floppy
which presumes everything is no smarter than a
'486. The machine boots. The machine also boots
and runs Windows/2000 professional with no problems.

So... has anybody else had problems with this chip-set/CPU
combination? I'm currently "making" a distribution here
at work, from an already-installed 7.0 on another machine.
I'm sure this will work because it, too, only presumes
a '486. So, any suggestions?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.

Re: P4-CPU/NoBoot

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 14:55, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I tried to install RH 7.0 on a new box this
> week-end:
> 
> 	Motherboard MSI 648 Max
> 	CPU Intel P4 2.8 GHz
> 	Memory 1024 MB PC-333 DDR

7.0 is an odd thing to install but ought to have
worked. 7.0 doesn't handle PIV feature stuff and
also doesn't support SMP or hyperthreaded PIV
(you'll get random segfaults). Intel provided fixes
for that specific kernel bug in later kernels

Re: P4-CPU/NoBoot

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Llu, 2003-04-14 at 14:55, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > I tried to install RH 7.0 on a new box this
> > week-end:
> >
> > 	Motherboard MSI 648 Max
> > 	CPU Intel P4 2.8 GHz
> > 	Memory 1024 MB PC-333 DDR
>
> 7.0 is an odd thing to install but ought to have
> worked. 7.0 doesn't handle PIV feature stuff and
> also doesn't support SMP or hyperthreaded PIV
> (you'll get random segfaults). Intel provided fixes
> for that specific kernel bug in later kernels
>

Okay. Yes 7.0 and 7.1 are the CD/ROMs that I had at home.
I know RH is at 8.0 now. I will try to install the
stuff I have at work on the home CPU, I just brought
my SCSI drive and cloned everything. I will boot
from a floppy first, then LILO or grib the drive if
it boots okay. I just wanted to check if I was going
to have any other problems. Thanks.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.

Re: P4-CPU/NoBoot

[Vid Strpic]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:07:28PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I know RH is at 8.0 now. I will try to install the stuff I have at
> work on the home CPU, I just brought my SCSI drive and cloned
> everything. I will boot from a floppy first, then LILO or grib the
> drive if it boots okay. I just wanted to check if I was going to have
> any other problems. Thanks.

It's in fact 9.0, try to get that, that P4 is a pretty new CPU :)

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