Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work
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From: deloptes on 23 Apr 2010 09:30 Joey Hess wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] >> >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. >> >> This is obviously a problem with initrd. Set too large for such a low >> memory system perhaps? > > I doubt it, since your initrd is only 7 mb. > > This seems more likely to be a problem with your bootloader. Quite > possibly grub is not configured to read the initrd from the correct disk > device. It can be hard to get that right when preparing an disk image on > another machine. > > Or possibly, given the age of the hardware, the initrd is not located > near enough to the front of the drive for grub to be able to access it. > (Which is why having a separate /boot partition first used to be a good > idea.) > I would take a live-cd or usb disk (there are images available). Avoid using gnome or kde - your system wont make it. I've had always problems with initrd when not installing from cd. But I'm good in debugging it. I.e. you should edit /etc/modules and put the disk relevant modules there and recreate the initrd image. This is happening when you install different kernel after basic install. Or if you install with debootstrap and swap the drives. You could actually easy debug it if you add the kernel option init=/bin/sh and then check what's wrong. I.e. wrong disk drives or not loaded or not available modules. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hqs72f$9e8$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Joey Hess on 22 Apr 2010 01:00 Scarletdown wrote: > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 > [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > > After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > > This is obviously a problem with initrd. Set too large for such a low memory > system perhaps? I doubt it, since your initrd is only 7 mb. This seems more likely to be a problem with your bootloader. Quite possibly grub is not configured to read the initrd from the correct disk device. It can be hard to get that right when preparing an disk image on another machine. Or possibly, given the age of the hardware, the initrd is not located near enough to the front of the drive for grub to be able to access it. (Which is why having a separate /boot partition first used to be a good idea.) -- see shy jo
From: Tzafrir Cohen on 23 Apr 2010 14:40 On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:24:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > Scarletdown wrote: > >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 > >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > >> > >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > >> > >> This is obviously a problem with initrd.� Set too large for such a low > >> memory system perhaps? > > > > I doubt it, since your initrd is only 7 mb. > > > > This seems more likely to be a problem with your bootloader. Quite > > possibly grub is not configured to read the initrd from the correct disk > > device. It can be hard to get that right when preparing an disk image on > > another machine. > > > > Or possibly, given the age of the hardware, the initrd is not located > > near enough to the front of the drive for grub to be able to access it. > > (Which is why having a separate /boot partition first used to be a good > > idea.) > > > > I would take a live-cd or usb disk (there are images available). Avoid using > gnome or kde - your system wont make it. A Live CD puts some files in a ramdisk, and thus wastes some more RAM. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir(a)jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il | | best tzafrir(a)debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100423182939.GX16560(a)pear.tzafrir.org.il
From: jeremy jozwik on 21 Apr 2010 21:50 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Scarletdown <scarletdown(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ...but now I would like to make it dual boot with Debian. However, the laptop > hangs when I try to boot into Linux. Specifically, the last thing shown on > the screen before nothing else happens is: im interested to know why your choosing debian rather then damn small? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l2jf8d5d4f31004211844y7d05d2f0xcf1584d060f33b1c(a)mail.gmail.com
From: jeremy jozwik on 21 Apr 2010 22:00
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scarletdown <scarletdown(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Damn Small is fine for a live distro. However, I did not like having to > jump through so many hoops to get it configured the way I wanted (even > permanently changing the hostname was a big hassle). just wondering, best reason there is having everything on the same os. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2hf8d5d4f31004211849xb177b9f8q23107b4c0f8ee9d9(a)mail.gmail.com |