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 |
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