athlon 800MHz (Via82*) - Pentium4 Intel D845WN

athlon 800MHz (Via82*) - Pentium4 Intel D845WN

[Gonzalo Augusto Arana Tagle]

Hi,

I had an Athlon 800MHz (chipset Via82... on motherboard) which got
burned.
I bought a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz with mother Intel D845WN.
When I try to boot the same linux I had installed, it simply reboots,
but I can install a new linux distribution (RH, Slackware, etc.).

Linux: Red-Hat 7.2 (well, ..... I wanted to be comfortable really
quickly),
       kernel 2.4.10 (default kernel, no recompilation made)
It reboots after writing:

"Uncompressing kernel .......................
OK, now booting the kernel" (or similar).

How may I find out what's wrong?  Is it possible to debug this problem?

Thank you very much in advance,

-- 
Gonzalo A. Arana Tagle
Lider de Proyectos - Ingenieria
UOL-Sinectis

Florida 537 Piso 6, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
+54-11-4321-9110 ext 2544
http://www.uolsinectis.com

Re: athlon 800MHz (Via82*) - Pentium4 Intel D845WN

[Alastair Stevens]

Hi - your Red Hat installation will have used the Athlon-optimised
kernel by default, so it will not boot on a non-Athlon machine. You will
probably need to boot from a boot floppy, mount your filesystems, and
install a new i686-optimised kernel RPM. Or compile your own kernel on
another machine and get it in there.

I can't immediately give you the full details - look at Red Hat's
documentation or other help on the web....

Cheers
Alastair                            .-=-.
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