Hello Tony:<br>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.<br>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?<br>
Thanks,<br>John Bradsher<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Tony Travis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.travis@abdn.ac.uk">a.travis@abdn.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 16/04/11 02:44, John Bradsher wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
I have recently turned on to BioLinux 6, and I run it daily on one<br>
machine with an Intel Core i5 processor. I have been interested to<br>
install BL6 on an older Pentium 4 machine. First, understand that I've<br>
been successful installing Ubuntu Linux 10.10 on this older machine, so<br>
I'm fairly confident that the processor is able to do the trick. The<br>
trouble comes when I insert the disk for BL6, I repeatedly get the error<br>
"x86 is expected, but found only i686 processor. Find a kernel<br>
appropriate for your processor."<br></div>
[...]<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Hi, John.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
<br>
Tony.<br>
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