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Puppy CD won't boot in old Toshiba Satellite laptop
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lulrich
Joined: 25 Sep 2011 Posts: 13 |
hi everyone, I am learning to use puppy and run into this problem, I have an old computer I wanted to convert to puppy linux and when I put the cd in the computer it starts but only goes so far, perfoming a ¨switch_root to the layered filesystem...Kernel panic-not syncing : Attempted to kill init! its an old satellite 2540CDS toshiba, I would really like to use linux on it and think it can be done, if someone can help me I would appreciate, blessings |
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saintless
 Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 2182 Location: Bulgaria |
Hi, it is an old laptop if I don't mistake. I think you should use some puppy linux for older hardware for this laptop like Wary or Puppy 431. I don't have a laptop but I'm sure someone will suggest you better laptop puppy version than me. Cheers _________________ Farewell, Nooby, you will be missed... |
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Aitch
 Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK |
Wow, that probably is 300mhz with only 96mb ram? more specs please People have got them working, but puppy development moves on, so you may need a better PC to download and burn ISOs with, if it won't run with the version you're trying often on older hardware you may need to add
or some other boot parameter at the 5 second boot page, to prevent that message http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootParameters here's a similar problem machine http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52429 You may also need to go into your bios and turn off plug and play, and set the boot order to CD 1st, if it isn't You don't say which puppy version you are trying, but instead, try an earlier 214X or 4.2.1R, or Wary 522 http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/iso-sfs/214X-top6.2.iso http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-4.2.1retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/wary-5.2.2/wary-5.2.2.iso good luck Aitch 
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lulrich
Joined: 25 Sep 2011 Posts: 13 |
thank you much I'll see what I can do and let you know how it went, blessings |
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