Laptops :: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT

Aloha, yet another 'newbie' trying to revive a piece of old hardware - in this case a P100 with a whopping 16Mb of ram and a hefty 1.3Gb HDD.

Anyway, after starting to boot with fb800x600 failsafe expert I get the following message:

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Accessing DSL image at /dev/scd0...
Total memory found 13444 kB
Creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk....Unable to handle kernely paging request at virtual address 0168a4b4
printing eip:
c012dce5
*pde = 00000000
Ooops = 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c012dce5>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: 0168a4b4 ebx: c00362d0 ecx: 00000020 edx: 00000020
esi: 0168a4b0 edi: c02a42bc ebp: 00000400 esp: c06adf24
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process cp (pid: 39, stackpage=c06ad000)
Stack: 00000000 c0b5b420 c00362d0 c01696e9 c0b5b420 c0c10070 c0b5b420 c0b59f90
c016c387 c0b5b420 c0c10070 c06ac000 c0c10070 ffffffff 000001ed c0149a17
c0c10070 c0b59f90 000001ed c0b59f90 000041ed c06adfa4 c0b59f90 c0149af4
Call Trace: [<c01696e9>] [<c016c387>] [<c0149a17>] [<c0149af4>] [<c0108997>]

Code: 39 46 04 74 0e 31 c9 ba 03 00 00 00 89 f0 e8 6c aa fe ff 5b
Segmentation Fault

Now I'll be blunt: I have little idea what I'm doing with a linux system. My previous experiences have all been either mandrake, fedora or SuSe, and all on 'new' equipment.

Am I simply in over my head? Is the hardware simply not compatible? (Although I'm getting hda and hdc picking up as Toshiba MK1301MAV and Toshiba CD-ROM XM-1402B and both seem to function) Have I done something ridiculously stupid?

I have the distribution both on a cd in the drive (0.8.1) and the contents of /knoppix/ have been copied over - in the above instance it was booted from the CD, but the same happens when booted from the HDD...

Just a quick update, when trying to boot with just failsafe, I can get to the following:

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Done.
Starting init process.
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
INIT: No innittab file found

Enter runlevel:

...and irregardless of which runlevel I try to enter, it responds:

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INIT: Enter runlevel: x
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

This is after I see the 'segmentation fault' error. Suffice to say I'm puzzled

with only 16 megs, and no swap yet to count on ..

Try these options as well to get to a prompt..

We can work on X later..

" dsl 2 "

or

" failsafe 2 "

Also, I have seen this when the cdrom is partially flakey..
In other words, it would read OK on my larger system,
but in my old laptop, it would not read well..
Burning a fresh copy of DSL at a slower burn speed, like 4x or 2x
on some fresh media, made a difference for me..

73
ke4nt

I've gotten DSL working on a 420CDT with 100mhz/40MB RAM, so other than the RAM, the hardware will definitely support it. Good luck with it.

Thanks for the advice - the only problem that remains is that it's 1am here, I live quite rurally and only have 1 CD left... :laugh:

I've copied the /knoppix/ files over onto a 200Mb fat partition (the only partition on the drive) and I'm still having the same problem, leading me to believe it's unrelated to the disk. However, I'll quite happily burn another copy of it - should I stick with the latest version however, or would I be more likely of success with a retro-fit?

Anyway, fb800x600 failsafe 2 and fb800x600 dsl 2 both produced the same "Segmentation fault" error output, although it continued:

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Starting init process.
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 14k freed
INIT: version 2.78 knoppix booting
INIT: No inittab file found
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

and sits there...

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