Hi forum,
I'm new to this forum (and puppy) so I need a bit of a hand here. I'm looking to install puppy on an old Acer Travelmate 602TER, 128Mb RAM.
I just tried to boot from the current puppy-2.00-seamonkey.iso but it is crashing at the point where it establishes that there is no floppy disk controller. I get a stack trace and a freeze so I can't supply that info here (without typing it out!). There is no way to change any bios settings to do with this and I don't have a floppy disk drive to add (it's either cdrom or floppy). Puppy 1.07 boots fine.
I'm guessing that the crash is caused by there being no fd0 controller in bios. Is there a way to remove floppy disk detection with a boot command in any way? Any other suggestions?
Many thanks
Gary
floppy disk controller dumping core at boot up for puppy2
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Apparently, Travelmates have a notorious problem with both ACPI and APIC.
Still, the issue here is definitely that bios is reporting a floppy disk drive and controller that isn't present.
puppy pnpbios=off
fixes the boot crash
puppy noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi
may also be useful.
Gary
Still, the issue here is definitely that bios is reporting a floppy disk drive and controller that isn't present.
puppy pnpbios=off
fixes the boot crash
puppy noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi
may also be useful.
Gary