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I have an old PC running 900Mhz Tbird CPU and 768Mb RAM. I also upgraded the HDD to a 60Gb. I've tried to install Gentoo, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint ...
  1. 02-18-2011 #1
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    Question "checking hlt instructions" error during CentOS installation

    I have an old PC running 900Mhz Tbird CPU and 768Mb RAM. I also upgraded the HDD to a 60Gb. I've tried to install Gentoo, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint and all and everyone of them stop at the line "checking hlt instructions" during the installtion. I've looked over the web and there are quite a few cases with the same problem, nonetheless the solution is not clear to me, still. I've managed to install CentOS, though, with the help of web forums, bypassing the error by typing from the Kernel "linux no-hlt" and pressing enter. Now when I rebooted the machine it keeps doing even though the install completed succesfully.
    I'm interested in loading CentOS to build a server since I used to run Ubuntu 8.04 on that box without any problems. Can anyone assist me with this issue?
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  2. 02-19-2011 #2
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    Hello and welcome to the forums!

    I don't know that this will work and can't test it since I'm not running CentOS, but you can try adding no-hlt to the end of the kernel line in your GRUB configuration file, then reboot.

    Hope it works.
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    Exactly what I was going to suggest Ozar! That should keep him from needing to manually input no-hlt to the boot screen.
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