[Novalug] 1997 bios

[Brandon Saxe]

I would see if you can somehow turn off ACPI by
passing it as an option on kernel command line and see
what happens.

The installer should have kernel options by pressing
some F* key instead of just hitting enter.

A quick search on Google returned this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=715344

This may get you down the right track.

Also, question: Does any LiveCD distro boot up okay? 
Say, Ubuntu Live, Knoppix, DSL? If any of those boot
up okay, then you might glean some hints from kernel
params that worked.

One other option may be to try NetBSD Unix. The goal
of NetBSD is to run on as much hardware that exists as
possible.

Good Luck.

--- Anthony Soucek <monkeywrenchit at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to install xubuntu on an old PII sony
> Vios pc, it has a
> pII 233Mhz processor and 128MB of ram, It took me 6
> hours of going
> through junk parts to get it a 14 GB drive and 128
> MB ram that it
> would actually recognize.  It has another drive with
> win95 and lots of
> fancy video card/ tv tuner stuff that was snazzy in
> the back when and
> I know I will probably not find half the drivers It
> needs.When I boot
> from the xubuntu cd, it looks like it's going to
> install, then it says
> something about Bios failed APCM check, bios 1997:
> cutoff 2000 then it
> continues but comes up to a command prompt that says
> (initramfs) in a
> busybox shell.  Is this a deal breaker?  can I
> proceed with the
> install in the shell?   What commands do I need?  
> is (inintramfs) the
> suggestion of the default command to run? like
> initialize ram
> filesystem?
> 
> I am trying to make this thing usable so my
> neighbors Burmese foster
> child can use it for Rosetta Stone language lessons
> online.   Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Soucek
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