id 1 spawn too fastForum: HD Install Topic: id 1 spawn too fast started by: veritas Posted by veritas on May 27 2006,02:11
My attempt to rig a simple system for my mom using Linux has failed miserably. I should have stuck with the first machine...her original one. It worked the best, but was giving beep codes like it didn't like the ram. So I ripped out the guts and put it all on a newer emachine board. No linux distro could boot in that one...either install or live cd. I thought the mother board was bad so cdrom wasn't reading well...nope. Another low end system...same deal. the frustrating part is that I got NO error messages...no idea what the problem is. Well, anyway, I decided to try dsl and it's come the closest so far. This is a P3 with a Radeon 7200 vid card. The boot from cd worked flawlessly...if I could just reproduce that with the install, because the installed version got nowhere. One line after loading the kernel I got: ID 1 Respawning too fast...disabled for 5 minutes. I googled that but the explanations were unclear and the fixes involved trying to get access to inittab and things of that nature. Since I can't boot, I'm sure you see my problem. I don't need fancy graphics. I just want a useable system. Any ideas why I can do everything I want by booting from cd but not from hard disk? Seems if the cd can do it than simply installing should be able to. Posted by Trog Dog on May 27 2006,10:44
I had this problem on a new secondhand Compaq, turned out the hard drive was on the blink, replaced the hd and all is good
Posted by kerry on May 27 2006,11:47
I would try formatting the drive again.
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