From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-10mdk i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010403 I installed RH7.1 on my home machine with a amd duron. Everything works fine. Now i took the harddisk and connected it to a server using a K6-3 500. And everytime i try to boot the system hangs after "ok, now booting the kernel". I thought it could be the ide controller, cause he perhaps can work with a 40 GB harddisk, so i connected a Dawicontrol dc-100 but the problem still occurs. I can boot the system. Whats going wong here? I didn modify the standard kernel or anything else... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install RH 7.1 on a amd k6-500 2. 3.
The problem is this: On Athlon/Duron machines, the i686 kernel gets installed. The i686 kernel uses specific features of Pentium II and Athlon/Duron machines (which give significantly higher performance) and as a result won't work on K6 machines. Same story for the glibc packages. What you should do is install the i586 kernel and the i386 glibc package (rpm -iU <filenames from cd>) and don't forget to run lilo. Make sure the i686 packages are no longer installed before plugging the harddisk in the AMD K6 machine. Please reopen this bug if this doesn't work