the installer...

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:11, david paeme wrote:
> In RH9, the installer kernel is compiled for i686 (RH8 was i386). Since
> this is not a bad thing, It kinda gives some problems sometimes when
> installing on certain systems.
> For example: The installer-kernel kept on crashing when trying to do an
> install on my little home server, which has a Via C3 processor (you
> know, soldered on one of those sweet mini-itx boards), which does not
> support the i686 instruction set (almost, but it doesn't support the
> 'cmov' instruction).

The kernel on the CD is the i586 kernel with ACPI turned on.  Not the
i686.  The kernel on bootdisk.img is the i386 BOOT kernel without ACPI. 
If you boot from CD with 'acpi=off', does it work better?

Jeremy