On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > This may, at first glance, appear to be an exercise into insanity, but it is > a rather important little project to me. > > I have this old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P-120, 6GB had drive, and a > whoppong 24MB RAM) that is currently running 98SE Lite. It runs adequately > on Windows, but now I would like to make it dual boot with Debian. [...] > The build box boots the bare bones build beautifully. However, the laptop > hangs when I try to boot into Linux. Specifically, the last thing shown on > the screen before nothing else happens is: > > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 > [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > > After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > > This is obviously a problem with initrd. Set too large for such a low > memory system perhaps? If so, what can be done to fix this? Perhaps. You could certainly build a kernel that doesn't require the initrd. You'd probably benefit a lot from running a custom kernel anyway. .02 A
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