On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:24:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > Scarletdown wrote: > >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 > >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > >> > >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > >> > >> This is obviously a problem with initrd. Set too large for such a low > >> memory system perhaps? > > > > I doubt it, since your initrd is only 7 mb. > > > > This seems more likely to be a problem with your bootloader. Quite > > possibly grub is not configured to read the initrd from the correct disk > > device. It can be hard to get that right when preparing an disk image on > > another machine. > > > > Or possibly, given the age of the hardware, the initrd is not located > > near enough to the front of the drive for grub to be able to access it. > > (Which is why having a separate /boot partition first used to be a good > > idea.) > > > > I would take a live-cd or usb disk (there are images available). Avoid using > gnome or kde - your system wont make it.
A Live CD puts some files in a ramdisk, and thus wastes some more RAM. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100423182939.gx16...@pear.tzafrir.org.il
