Sorry, Alex, I'm from the CP/M - DR-DOS - OS/2 - Windows train of thought. I just tried to install lubuntu because it was recommended here. I had previously installed pclinuxos on a hard drive and found it rather ponderous: slow. On a 600E. I was hoping lubuntu might be a Windows alternative to the young person who was going to use the 600E. The disk was direct from the lubuntu org. I gave up and put something else on the hard drive.
I don't remember a grub menu option. Every menu option that I tried, ended in "Kernel panic", which I guess is one form of "hanging" as we used to call it. In the example I gave, it was trying to load itself into RAM. So it couldn't find the disk it had just booted from? Or it was unable to find the RAM? At the risk of being pedantic, I couldn't "paste" anything from a system that doesn't work. At best, I'd have to retype it. >Can't find the root device for some reason. Get into the grub menu, edit the >command line, and paste it here. > >On Aug 5, 2010 12:34 PM, "Jonathan Berry" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I tried installing lubuntu 10.04 from CD on a (known good!) >>600E, and after the initial menu, all I got was "kernel panic", >>whatever that is. >> >>For example, this message: >> >>[ 4.534868] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount >>root-fs on unknown block (8,1) >> >>and then the computer runs hot, but actually isn't doing >>anything. Might as well turn it off. >> >> >> >> >>I tried Xubuntu with LXDE installed and it gave no where near the >performance that Lubuntu does... > >> --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal > >> --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Lubuntu 10.04 > -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
