It's hard to see what's wrong with if from here, but I'd look at ACPI and your partition scheme. Have you tried turning off ACPI? You might also use a normal partition for your root file system. A 500 MHz machine should be more than adequate for file service.
On Thursday 26 April 2007 11:03 am, Joe Fruchey wrote: > I have an old 500MHz Compaq POS ... > > The problem (guess I should mention that, huh?) is that right after > GRUB, I get "Starting up..." at the top of the screen, then a reboot. > > At one point (I think with Dapper server) it was working okay. I never > got a login, but I could switch to a new console and log in just fine. > > I've installed an OS on this computer six times in the past two weeks, > and I'm sick of it. Anybody got any ideas? > > Joe
