[Bio-Linux] odd and confounding behavior with BioLinux distros 5 and 6

[John Bradsher]

Hello Tony:
Well, thanks for the confirmation on that. I had suspected this, even if
some of the specs for the Pentium 4 suggest that it has the 64-bit
architecture.
However, the real problem comes from being unable to boot from the disk with
the BL5 iso image. As I stated before, I can only imagine that this results
from having the more recent ubuntu 10.10 kernel running on the Pentium 4
machine. Is there any reason this should happen? Is there any workaround for
the problem?
Thanks,
John Bradsher

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Tony Travis <a.travis at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 16/04/11 02:44, John Bradsher wrote:
>
>> I have recently turned on to BioLinux 6, and I run it daily on one
>> machine with an Intel Core i5 processor. I have been interested to
>> install BL6 on an older Pentium 4 machine. First, understand that I've
>> been successful installing Ubuntu Linux 10.10 on this older machine, so
>> I'm fairly confident that the processor is able to do the trick. The
>> trouble comes when I insert the disk for BL6, I repeatedly get the error
>> "x86 is expected, but found only i686 processor. Find a kernel
>> appropriate for your processor."
>> [...]
>>
>
> Hi, John.
>
> The Core i5 is a 64-bit processor (x86_64) and is capable of running
> Bio-Linux 6, which is based on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04, but the Pentium 4 is
> only a 32-bit processor (i686) and is not capable of running it. The
> previous version of Bio-Linux 5 was based on 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 that would
> run on a Pentium 4.
>
> HTH,
>
>  Tony.
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