Re: Booting Fiesty on old hardware
- From: "Mumia W." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:49:19 -0500
On 09/29/2007 09:55 PM, Frank Stutzman wrote:
Mark Hobley <markhobley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use Debian on Pentium 120s here (and lilo as a boot loader).
Hmmm, lilo. I've been using grub and maybe switching boot loaders somehow might make a differance.
How much RAM do you have? I find that 64Mb RAM is minimal (especially for a live cd distribution) and machines with less than that may hang during boot up.
I've got a fair amount of memory for the vintage of the machine (128mb).
(Try creating and using a swap partition, if you can get that far before the computer hangs.)
Actually it doens't hang. It reboots itself apparently shortly after loading the kernel. I'm hoping someone can suggest some boot option that will give me some details on what is happening just before it reboots.
I meant to respond earlier, but somehow I forgot.
Try booting into runlevel 1. If that doesn't work, try booting with "init=/bin/sh" on the command line. If that doesn't work, I'd say you have a failed installation.
Visit the Ubuntu troubleshooting pages on their web site (if any).
Installing again might work. My first attempt to install Debian failed*.
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* Not really failed, but my DVD drive had errors which caused the installation to be messed up.
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