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nicom
Joined: 05 Feb 2006
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 Posted: Tue 14 Mar 2006, 04:19 Post subject:
 Problem Booting v1.0.8 (P133, 32 MB RAM) |
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I currently have 1.0.6 working well on my old machine (P133, 32 MB). I am trying to upgrade to 1.0.8r1 and I intend to install it onto another partition of one of my drives. When I try to live boot (with the aid of a floppy) the boot process freezes. I checked the image with md5sum and it was OK. I can also boot successfully with the dsik onto more modern computers but not on my dinosaur.
The boot process successfully gets as far as
Mouning tmpfs... Done
I then get the messages such as
| Quote: | __alloc_pages: 0-order alocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process cp
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| Quote: | __alloc_pages: 0-order alocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM:killing process init
Killed |
It then freezes or times out for 60 seconds. I assume it's a hardware issue but why is it different to 1.0.6 live boot which still works.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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jmarsden
Joined: 31 Dec 2005
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Location: California, USA
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| Posted: Tue 14 Mar 2006, 04:31 Post subject:
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Looks a bit like it is running short of RAM? Do you have a swap parttion in place? Is Puppy using it by the time it gives this error message?
If not... maybe your RAM is going bad? Run memtest86+ overnight or something, to rule this out, if you can.
Jonathan
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nicom
Joined: 05 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Tue 14 Mar 2006, 04:52 Post subject:
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Thanks Jonathan,
From your suggestion I am running memtest at the moment but I doubt I will find anything. As I said I can run version 1.0.6 from either the HD or the CD. The HD version definately has the swap file turned on but with the live 1.0.8 version I don't get far enough into the boot process to turn on the swap partition.
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nicom
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| Posted: Tue 14 Mar 2006, 19:27 Post subject:
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memtest did not produce any errors.
Does anyone have another suggestion, or do I need to travel down the rocky road of manual HD install.
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