The spec sheet for the HP Pavilion 2000 says the video is an "integrated graphic controller", so I guess that is something on board.
When does the "initializing ram disk" process take place? Unfortunately a different CD reader is not an option. I don't think it will boot, for example, from an external USB CD-RW. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monday, December 24, 2001): >does if motherboard have on-board video? try specifying say 8 megs less ram. >do you get to the point of "initializing ram disk"? maybe a different cd >reader is the answer? > > >On Sunday 23 December 2001 22:55, you wrote: >> This is a re-post because I have new information now: >> >> I am able to run the installer on my old Mint Pentium 133MHz 96MB >> machine. So the ISO-image I downloaded and the CD-ROM I burned are not >> the problem. Any ideas? Is my HP just incompatible? (;_;) >> >> Thanks! >> >> p.s. The installer looks much nicer than the RedHat installer. :-) >> >> Original note: >> >> Hi. I just downloaded the install ISO image for Mandrake 8.1 and burned a >> CD-ROM from it. Then I restarted my computer and the Mandrake >> installation program started up. I pressed Enter and after a bunch of >> lines on the screen the process stopped with the following error message: >> >> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! >> >> I tried this again, pressing F1 instead of Enter and choosing various >> other installations, such as vgalo. But they all resulted in the same >> error. >> >> Does this mean my hardware is just not supported? >> >> It is an HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion 2000, Celeron 400 MHz, 192 MB RAM. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Doug Lerner, Tokyo > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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