Hello together,

trying to revive and old system to run a vdr-server I came to Slackware due to the CPU not supporting the pae or cmov features.

System is based on this aardware: ASUS P5A, AMD K6-2+ 500 MHz, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200 256MB AGP, 5x 120GB Samsung IDE-HDD, DVD-ROM (no boot via USB, no Floppy available).

Starting with Salix OS 14.1 (Fluxbox & Openbox) for testing, both stopped with several errors right from the start (e.g. EDD: Error 8000 reading secor...).

Therefore I dld slackware 14.2 32bit D1 CDROM ISO, burned it and booting went smoothly, HDD and DVD-ROM were successfully found and addressed, until:

Freeing unused kernel memory...
Write protecting the kernel text:11760k
Write protecting the kernel read only data: 3756k
Bad inittab entry at line 7
Bad inittab entry at line 30
Bad inittab entry at line 31
Bad inittab entry at line 32
Bad inittab entry at line 35
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `´´
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Then system just hangs.

Anyone an idea how to continue here?

Thanks.

agerhard

Looks like either an issue with the media (did you check the integrity of the ISO file?) or an issue with the DVD drive, or a bad RAM. I would try to run the memtest to check that first. Insert the DVD again, start the machine and when you see the first screen just type "memtest" (without the quotes) after boot:

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Hello Didier,

thanks for the hint - RAM was it indeed. One of the three was not functioning correctly. Pulling it makes the install work like a charm so far.

cu,
agerhard