Declan Moriarty wrote:

> INIT: Init version 2.60 booting
> INIT Cannot fork.... retrying
> INIT: Cannot fork /etc/rc.S
> INIT: entering runlevel 4
> INIT: No more processes left at this runlevel.
>
> The power switch is the only way out. The cpu appears to be a 20 Mhz Intel
> 386 - not the 386sx I expected, but without a coprocessor all the same. I
> tried with 2 standard (and working) copies of Toms and got the same result,
> same place. Ditto Maniasoft's windes - it won't load. 2 copies - same error,
> same line. Someone tried to install windows and failed. I imagine this is
> betraying a fundemental hardware  inadequacy. Whassat?

Are you sure you have the software coprocessor in your kernel?  It isn't obvious
how that relates to fork(), but it is required for Linux.  You've at least got
past loading the kernel, so there's hope.

Dave


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