[Novalug] new OS for old hdw

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Wed Jan 30 14:12:36 EST 2008


If it has a floppy, try booting from a boot floppy, then continue with the CD.

Jay

>
>  	I have a Hewlett-Packard omnibook XE2 sitting here which
> belongs to a friend who says the present M$ has gotten to slow to
> stand; and, having booted to it, I concur strongly.
>
>  	I put a known good F8 live CD into it, and got as far as
> "This kernel requires the following features not present on the
> CPU : 0:15 Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for
> your CPU"
>
>  	I tried a known good live CD of Ubuntu 7.10.
>
>  	It shows the same message, without any sign of trying to
> boot.
>
>  	I took out that, and tried booting it with *no* CD. Same
> result -- not even an attempt to boot, to anything.
>
>  	Puppy, same result. DamnSmallLinux, same. I hear the disk
> spin, briefly; but afaict, it never even looks at it.
>
>  	I had to hit Esc during boot to tell it to boot from the
> CD; but I don't even get that offer, nor any of the boot displays
> you'd expect initially from any computer
>
>  	What have I done to this dinosaur??
>
> --
> Beartooth Implacable, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
> Freedom is my issue : I'm pro-choice, pro-right-to-die,
> pro-gun, and pro-term-limits. Without defiance, no liberty.
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