On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 03:10:40PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > yes, I know, 32-bit is no more suopporred, but maybe one can answer my > questions though. > > I have a netbook EEEPC with kali-linux. Everything works fine, but since the > change from kernel 5.4 to higher version, I noticed the strange behaviour, > that the kernel wil not boot very time. > > Is this a hardware incompability somehow? The device only has 2GB RAM. >
This - 2GB is *very* low memory these days. The eeepc is now VERY old hardware too. I'm not sure that this will continue to be viable. > > So far so well, my questions: > > 1. is this issue known? > > 2. Is there any parameter I can add to the kernel to avoid this hangs? > (Itried > ecc=off with no succes) > That is probably irrelevant. > 3. Is there any way, to write a log, as soon as the kernel starts? (I suppose > not, because at that moment, there are still no partitions mounted. Where > shall it write to except to RAM or /boot partition?). > > Folks, if no one knows or you think, 32-bit is not worth to think of, no > problem! This issue is not a big deal and booting 2 or 3 tries is no big > deal, > too. I can well live with this issue! > > In the other case: Thanks for your help! > As above, Kali is a Debian derivative and *not* Debian. Strictly, discussion of non-Debian derivatives is off-topic on this list. > Best > > Hans > > All the very best to you Andrew Cater ([email protected])
