Laptops :: Id "x" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes
Hello
Maybe someone has encountered this prob before. I am trying to install to HDD on an ambra laptop ts30at (486dx4 20mbram, 300mb/hda2partition/ext2, 80mb/hda3swap, no cdrom, no network) I installed it to hd on another laptop that has cdrom (233mmx 72mb ram) and then transfered the drive to the 486. the result is slow but steady booting until just after the knoppix "configuring hardware" bar
then I get bus error and two i/o error messages then "cannot execute /etc/init.d/rcS" then the ID "4" respawning..........etc. no more processes left in this runlevel. five minutes later it repeats the same message. I don't know a lot about DSL or even linux for that matter.
I'll bet there is someone out there that does!
Probably out-of-memory.. Put that hd back to the other lappy, and boot it. Did you format the swap? (mkswap /dev/hda3) Then enable it while booted DSL (swapon /dev/hda3). Then edit that boot loader line (/boot/lilo.conf APPEND line if lilo, or /boot/grub/menu.lst for grub) by adding "lowram" to it...
Then reboot while still on that lappy, to make sure you did it correctly...
Thanks for responding
I tried what you said: ie the "swapon" and the "lowram" option I still get the same error messages:
"/etc/rcS.d/S00Knoppix-autoconfig: line1: runlevel: command not found"
"cannot execute /etc/init.d/rcS line42 11 bus error $i start"
"entering runlevel: 5"
"cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc"
"Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
The installation operates fine in the pentium laptop but so far I can't get past the point mentioned above in the 486. has anyone got any other ideas?
486's ram may be corrupt. Or some I/O controller in it not supported...
OK!
so I guess DSL is not an option then for this old laptop. I might try delilinux or (sigh) go back to win95 (which does work) or win 98 (which also will work). I wanted to see how small a system I could get dsl to work on.
funny thing is.. I did get it to work using the tohd option but it was just a desktop, completely usless without a working mouse. lsmod revealed no loaded modules. there was no way to get anything to even run (except ctr/alt/del).
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