PCI problemForum: HD Install Topic: PCI problem started by: lopo42 Posted by lopo42 on July 20 2004,12:30
Hello guysI'm having a lot of trouble installing either the 7.1 or the 7.2 version to a very old box. It boots from the CD, decompresses the kernel, then tells me that me that I didn't choose a correct mode (I then take the 80x25 option). Then, the screen just gets black and the prompt starts to dance. I wait about five minutes and the prompt doesn't move anymore. Then, press a couple of times the enter key and it gives me the boot lines (stored, I thing, in the ring buffer). These lines end with the -- PCI: probing PCI hardware (00) -- log The PC is very old Pentium I 100Mhz with 16M Ram and 1Go HD Does anybody know a workaround? Or did anybody install a small linux version on such a system? Thanks in advance... LoPo Posted by cbagger01 on July 20 2004,16:37
Try some of the suggested boot parameters here:< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....agger01 > Hope this helps. Posted by ke4nt1 on July 20 2004,18:04
16M ram is cutting it close without a swap partition or file..More ram would be very helpful.... 73 ke4nt Posted by moncalejo on July 20 2004,18:39
Hi,Add a swap partition with cfdisk, at least of 64 MB. This was helpful for me. I have pentium 100 Mz, 32 RAM, 500 MB HD. |