My computer has 192 MB of RAM, so I'll subtract 11MB from that and try
linux mem=181M
and see what happens!
<pause to try>
Ooooh! It is working! That is, the installer is loading! Great advice,
Civileme!
I will try the installer program now and will report back on the results.
Thank you!
Doug Lerner, Tokyo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monday, December 24, 2001):
>On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 04:35, Doug Lerner wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>OK
>
>I have seen something like this before with the eboxit. ZTry this:
>
>F1 at splash screen
>
>linux mem=53M
>
>at the input prompt, or if you have 128M of memory then
>
>linux mem=117M
>
>It appears that this has shared video memory and ther BIOS may be handing
>the linux kernel a bad memory map so that the screen writing is
>overwriting the kernel stack.
>
>Civileme
>
>
>
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