debian sarge i386 boots mine up fine, and it's quite a few years old by now.
Steve On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:26:52 +1200 Neil Stockbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my guess is that you've got a i686 kernel. the mini-ITX chips (VIA C3-2 > and VIA Nehemiah cores) are strange 5x86 things. they'll work with an > i386 kernel but a C3-2 will not work on a Nehemiah optimised kernel and > vice versa. > > - neil > > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 18:17 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I just replaced a fried server with a Mini-ITX board and can't seem to boot > > it. > > > > I initially just shoved the drive from the old PC in and went to boot up as > > I > > have done many times before. Grub came up and I made my selection, > > immediately after the boot line the machine reboots. > > > > I thought that was odd, so tried a SLAX live CD and get the isolinux prompt > > and the same reboot after unpacking the kernel. Same deal with a Arch Linux > > install disc. > > > > After a bit of looking I found an old Windows CD which boots fine so it > > seems > > to be a compatibility problem with Linux and not just a fault :( > > > > I have tried passing acpi=off to the boot line with no result and looking > > through the BIOS I can't seem to find anywhere to turn ACPI off at all. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look next? All my google > > searches bring up dual boot articles etc. which aren't much help. > > > > Cheers, > > > > hads > > >
