Re: [PLUG] BIOS EDD -- new install hangs

[Shameel Arafin <algebraist@gmail.com>]

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Try Knoppix, and failing that, Damn Small Linux. Both are Debian
based, and both run really well on older machines.

S/

Christopher M. Jones wrote:

> I'm trying to install linux on an older machine (Celeron 700
> vintage). I've tried several distros: ubuntu, debian, Mandrake. All
> of them have the same result: they hang after ACPI reports its wake
> devices and EDD reports devices. The last line before a hang reads
> thus:
>
> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S5) BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 6
> devices found
>
> After that, nothing.
>
> Board is a SuperMicro 810 with Amibios 1997 1005001460 R 1.2C
>
> I don't know what kernel version it's trying to install, since the
> messages go by so fast, but surely its the 2.6 series. By the way,
> an older Mandrake, 10.1 community, did boot on this machine at one
> time.
>
> Any ideas? I'm not even sure what to google.
>
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