Failed RHEL install on old Dell Latitude CP
 

I am attempting to load RHEL4 on an old Dell Latitude CP 233. The installation from CD fails very quickly. Below are the steps to reproduce. I see a number of postings about people running linux on Latitude CPs. I assume I am missing an installation parameter. Could some one shed some light?
Thanks,
Scott


1) Insert the install CD.
2) Boot.
The menu and boot: prompt are displayed.
3) Enter linux text (tried a number of additional parameters)
The following displays
Loading vmlinux
Loading initrd.img …………………………………….
The system reboots.

Machine
Dell Latitude CP
Pentium 233 MMX
128M RAM
2M video
4G disk

have you tried passing acpi=off or no_acpi (can't remember which it is) to the loader?
[EDIT]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=531574
i just saw that see if it helps

Thanks, I tried acpi=off noacpi with the same results.

I also reburned the CD. I was not expecting that to work as I am currently typing a machine loaded from the same set of CDs but at this point I am shooting in the dark.

Still looking for ideas but thinking I may need to move to a different distribution.

Did you ever get it working? I'm curious because I have a Dell Latitude CP I just got (64MB ram.. gotta up that) and it looks to install Red Hat 6.1 and 9 alright (except for a little video driver issue).

It did exactly as you described when I tried CentOS 4.3 (which has worked for me before and was bought, not downloaded-and-burned by me). I would love it if I could get CentOS going since it's the most up-to-date distro I have available at this time (that may install).

Otherwise, DSL works fine and I haven't tried Puppy yet. My CDs of Knoppix haven't worked yet but they may be bad CDs.

Never did get it to work. Had to settle for freeBSD. It works fine. I am just not all that excited about maintaining yet another os around the house.

Scott