[Novalug] new OS for old hdw

[Beartooth]

 	I have a Hewlett-Packard omnibook XE2 sitting here which 
belongs to a friend who says the present M$ has gotten to slow to 
stand; and, having booted to it, I concur strongly.

 	I put a known good F8 live CD into it, and got as far as 
"This kernel requires the following features not present on the 
CPU : 0:15 Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for 
your CPU"

 	I tried a known good live CD of Ubuntu 7.10.

 	It shows the same message, without any sign of trying to 
boot.

 	I took out that, and tried booting it with *no* CD. Same 
result -- not even an attempt to boot, to anything.

 	Puppy, same result. DamnSmallLinux, same. I hear the disk 
spin, briefly; but afaict, it never even looks at it.

 	I had to hit Esc during boot to tell it to boot from the 
CD; but I don't even get that offer, nor any of the boot displays 
you'd expect initially from any computer

 	What have I done to this dinosaur??

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Beartooth Implacable, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
Freedom is my issue : I'm pro-choice, pro-right-to-die,
pro-gun, and pro-term-limits. Without defiance, no liberty.