[Novalug] 1997 bios

[Anthony Soucek]

This link was a good bit of advice, I disabled power management in the
bios, and got around a bad cd rom drive, but still have a bad burn of
the iso, so am torrenting down the alternate cd for 6.06 xubuntu and
alternate for 7.10.  I was able to get the live version of Ubuntu and
knoppix running with power management disabled.  Thanks for all the
suggestions.  Once again, duh, it comes down to reading the error
message and googling.  Of course friendly advice is always a help.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Brandon Saxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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Anthony Soucek