Out of memory while booting?

[Mark Ellison]

On 04/01/2009 02:18 PM, Charles G Montgomery wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Mark Komarinski wrote:
>   
>> On 04/01/2009 12:59 PM, Charles G Montgomery wrote:
>>     
>>> I have a machine with what I suspect is a hardware problem, but
>>> I'm not a hardware person.  Perhaps someone might have a
>>> suggestion if I describe the problem.
>>> (snippage)
>>>
>>> If anyone has an idea what the problem might be, or just
>>> suggestions of things to test, that would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>>       
>> Try one of the live CDs to see if that works.  Alternately, try
>> installing lenny and see if it gives you the same problem (you
>> can 'upgrade' to squeeze later if you want).
>>
>> -Mark
>>     
>
> Well, the OpenCD with Ubuntu is a live CD (intended to let Windows 
> users experience Linux), and it failed.  The failure of two 
> different kernels and the Ubuntu disk is what leads me to suspect 
> hardware rather than software as the problem, and hesitant to do a 
> full reinstall.  (There hadn't been any recent updates to testing 
> that should have anything to do with the boot process.)
>
> The fellow at Compucare had found a Knoppix disk, and started trying 
> to boot from it while we were talking on the phone.  By the end of 
> our conversation he hadn't reported successful completion, and it 
> seemed to me there had been enough time to boot if it was going to, 
> but I don't know what the final result was.
>
>   
I was able to boot a vintage 1997 ThinkPad 770ED with 256MB RAM from a 
Fedora 10 Live CD.  It doesn't take much memory to boot.  It did take a 
good 10 minutes though...
> Anyhow, thanks for your suggestions.
>   
Can you escape into CMOS during the boot sequence and run diagnostics on 
the hardware?
> cgm
>   

Regards,

Mark
http://EllisonSoftware.com
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