[nzlug] Compaq evo D500 installation

[Hadley Rich]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 13:23:01 SIMON WALKDEN wrote:
> I've acquired some dirt-cheap machines from trademe; two identical
> compaq evo d500's, and have tried installing centos-5 to no avail. the
> dvd media is recognised, but once a boot option is selected, vmlinuz
> and initrd.img load and the hardware reboots.

I don't know of the Compaq's specs but I've had the same symptoms trying to 
boot a installation disc with a kernel compiled for i686 on a Via processor 
which was missing one of the i686 instructions.

hads
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