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boot puppy4.11 in an older machine
Posted: Thu 06 Aug 2009, 03:21
by wuppy
Greetings, has anyone encountered a situation where none of your favorite linux cds will boot in an older machine. I have an older 600 meg pc that required two floppy disks to load the windows 98 from cd. Absolutely nothing with linux inscribed on it will boot. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have xp on it now and I was hoping to dual boot puppy 4.11 and xp.
Posted: Thu 06 Aug 2009, 03:42
by rjbrewer
What brand of pc?
Processor speed ?
Amount of ram?
A little info please.
Posted: Thu 06 Aug 2009, 10:22
by wuppy
Its a 600 mghtz, 512 ram gateway, about a 2000 model 20gig HD
Posted: Sat 08 Aug 2009, 13:42
by wuppy
No one has any ideas on this?? I have tryed all the boot options in the boot list and they all halt at - Disabling IRQ 10 when trying to boot the cd. Damn small linux boots fine but nothings else will.
Posted: Sat 08 Aug 2009, 16:03
by nitehawk
Its a 600 mghtz, 512 ram gateway, about a 2000 model 20gig HD
That really isn't such an old computer for small linux distros. I've run Puppy on a 500mhz, 286 ram, 20G hard drive. (HP Vectra)....
....I admit I'm clueless as to why Puppy won't run on it. (?) As I said,..that's not such a bad ol' machine!
Posted: Sun 09 Aug 2009, 00:54
by muggins
Have you tried any of the retro versions? e.g.:
puppy-4.2.1retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso
puppy-4.2.1retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.md5.txt
When you downloaded the original .iso, did you use a downloader that can resume from breaks in transmission? Does the .iso's md5sum check OK? Does the CD boot in other computers? Which burner did you use to burn the .iso? If using windows, I always use terabyte's
burncdcc.
Lastly, have you tried any, or combinations of, the boot paramenters? e.g.:
puppy ide=nodma
puppy acpi=off
Posted: Thu 13 Aug 2009, 01:00
by wuppy
I discovered the answer while installing Ubuntu mimimum on the same computer. Puppy and everything else except damn small linux always hung on disabling irq 10.
While installing ubuntu minimum I was reading all the scrolling info and all of the sudden it said, " IRQ 10 no one cared, try irqpoll and it zooms right by the pesky IRQ 10 aggrevation.
All I needed was to type puppy irqpoll at the puppy boot prompt to boot the cd.
I now have a poor mans install on the old computer and the new computer. On the old computer I just have pass irqpoll to the kerel in the grub menu.lst
Puppy 4.21 is extremely nice. Thanks a hundred times a hundred to the developers for such a nice system. All of linux really.