Jean-Pierre Froberger wrote:
> Installing SL 5.3 i386 via http, on a DELL PowerEdge2650, I get
> the following error:
> 
>  " Your cpu does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution"
> 
> My boot.iso, is, of course the i386 version !
> 
> With SL 4.8 the same procedure works fine.
> I also tried 5.0, which fails too.
> 
> Any idea ?
> Cheers,
> J-P

Hi,
The install images is usually right.
A test to see if you are trying to install a 64 bit machine,
First mount the boot.iso image, or mount the net install CD

And then do a "file" on the vmlinuz file, which is at "isolinux/vmlinuz"
It will then say if it is an ELF 32-bit, or an ELF 64-bit.

As an example, I have mounted a 32 bit install on /mnt/tmp1 and a 64 bit 
install on /mnt/tmp2

# file /mnt/tmp1/isolinux/vmlinuz /mnt/tmp2/isolinux/vmlinuz
/mnt/tmp1/isolinux/vmlinuz: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, 
version 1, stripped
/mnt/tmp2/isolinux/vmlinuz: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, 
version 1, stripped

I hadn't even noticed until right now that we don't say "i386" or 
"x86_64" in the boot message for SL5.  We're fixing that right now, and 
SL 5.4 should say in the boot message if you are doing i386 or x86_64.

Troy
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