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Re: Restarts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 8 16:25:14 1998

Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 15:16:43 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Hogg Graeme wrote:

> I asked this before, but got no replies.
> I recently upgraded my Intel Pentium 133 to an AMD K6-2 300, but now when I
> restart the computer, linux will not boot. It just says
> Loading Linux......
>
> and stops. The next step is the decompression of the kernel. I know that the
> kernel will not decompress if the processor is not the correct one. That is,
> what the kernel was compiled for use on. This is affecting my original
> kernel from RedHat 5.1, and the updated one. Does anybody have any ideas as
> to what is causing this?

Are you able to boot from the Redhat install diskette, or the Redhat
install CD?  How about other Linux boot diskettes?

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Jan Carlson
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