waiting for /dev to be fully populated

[Justin]

I'm working on reviving some pretty old hardware that previously had DSL 4.x. Hard drive died so I'm starting "New". Might have to go back to 4.x

Panasonic Toughbook CF-45
Pentium MMX 233MHz
96MB Ram
64GB CF to IDE "hard drive"
USB 1.1
800x600 TFT 256K colors

When booting it gets stuck at "waiting for /dev to be fully populated". Searching the internets, it appears this may be a driver issue.

I see during the boot stages that it's defaulting Xorg to VESA. I believe this may be the issue as VESA never worked with this laptop.


When I boot DSL 4.x liveCD I use the use the following

fb800x600 (this option is not recognized in DSL 2024)
NO: usb mouse
Yes: IMPS/Wheel 

Looks like there's a hardware minimum that I haven't been able to find yet.