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Won't install/boot on older machines

Won't install/boot on older machines

Posted Jul 11, 2006 12:51 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: A survey on kernel quality by guest
Parent article: A survey on kernel quality

It most probably doesn't work because today most distros assume i686 or equivalent. Without further details, very little can be said.

Have you reported your troubles to the relevant distributions? Did you ask Google, searched the relevant mailing lists?


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