On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Tomasz Jacykiewicz wrote: > I'm having a problem installing stable 4.0r3 on my old Cx6x86L (Cyrix - > Pentium One equivalent). It hangs just after "Ok, booting the kernel". > > This PC had Debian installed before successfully and it was used > for many years. Since then no hardware was changed, so I am suspecting > that kernel on the installation CD doesn't like this old i586. > > Where can I download an installation CD to work with that CPU? > I want to install it from it, and then upgrade to the newest > distribution compiling 2.6 kernel myself (with CONFIG_M586). First, please see if the erratum "i386: booting the installer may fail on some older systems" on [1] helps you. If not, there is not much advice we can give, except to try some general kernel options such as: - noapic - noapic nolapic - noacpi - fb=false Or combinations of those. Cheers, FJP [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/
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