homero
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Joined: Feb. 2006 |
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Posted: Feb. 10 2006,22:44 |
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I've just tried everything to get DSL installed on my old IBM 486 computer with 16Mb of RAM and 524Mb HDD, and I'm starting to think that, though I've almost finished, maybe I'll quit. My PC doesn't have CD Drive so I copied the image of Knoppix via LL3 from my P4 PC to the IBM, I did create the Floppy Boot Image too, but this one refuses to boot, so I installed the Hard Disk in my P4 PC as Master and booted to DSL from my DVD, ran a failsafe boot and I used the Apps > Tools > Install to Hard Disk option and installed the LILO 22.5.7.2 Bot Menu.
When the system asked me to reboot, I turned off my PC and installed the HDD onto my IBM PC, tried to boot (just ENTER) but I got these 4 last lines: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block -major -22, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "1601" or 16:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:01 Well, I have reinstalled DSL to the IBM's HDD on my P4 PC twice, one with Grub and the last with LILO.
LILO booted, but no matter what cheatcode I used, the DSL always halt on the same place.
The longest boot command line was:
dsl 1 vga=normal noatapicd noideraid nosound noapic acp=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce noddc fromhd=/dev/hda1 mem=16M expert failsafe lowram
As you can see, I just put all the meat on the grill.
I have tried every combination of commands and it's useless.
I noticed that I cannot use "expert" or "failsafe" command alone I have to write "dsl" first but this override the command and try to boot as normal.
Anyway, I'm a Linux newbie (on any flavor), but what I read on the last 4 lines make me think first in a memory frame problem (maybe) or with the HDD partition.
How can I partition the HDD before install the DSL inside DSL?
What I did was:
I booted with my Windows ME Disk 1 (in order to have CD drive access) I used the Partition Magic 4 to delete the original Win98SE -FAT32- partition and made a Linux Ext2 Partition of 396Mb and a Linux Swap Partition of 128Mb Then I booted with DSL in Failsafe mode and installed DSL to the HDD (When the install process ask me the target partition it didn't accept me "hda2" or "hda1" I have to write "hdc1". What do you think on that?)
By the way, I have made other 2 Live CD's. One with Knoppix and the other with Puppy Linux (which I couldn't configure to work with my DSL modem, which I did quickly with DSL and Knoppix)
Any idea?
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