Troy Dawson wrote: > 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 Hi, I retried the whole procedure: it works fine now ! I probably made a mistake. Sorry ! Could the boot.iso files be named according to the system/architecture they are supposed to be used for ? Example: boot53-32bit.iso Thanks for helping. Cheers, J-P