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