Stalled Boot

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

It's an old machine so maybe your hittng the bootable address space limit?
Don't remember the details. But the cure is creating a small (100 MB?)
/boot partition as the first partition when you install.

On 8/1/06, david <papabeardk at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> I have run into a problem, and have found this several times on several
> computers. The boot up process stalls.
>
> I loaded a HD with xubuntu 6.06
> Installed the HD into an older Gateway system (PII 350, 256 mg Ram, 6
> Gig HD, DVD Rom)
>
> The grub loaded and screen shifted to initial text
> Gets to Save Default and then Boot  Then stalls.
>
> Normally the next line is the linux kernal starting up.
>
> I have found this several times on another machine, and ended up loading
> Suse on that machine.
>
> Has anyone else run into this, and found a solution?
>
> David K
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Regards,
Russ
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