On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:27:24AM +0100, Gordon Hay wrote: > Yes, dual CPU. Two mighty 200MHz Pentium Pro... > > But no, I don't think the kernel on the CD works. > This failure occurs as soon as I press enter at the initial > prompt after booting the CD. > > I've tried "linux memmap=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=95m@1m rpmarch=1586" at > that prompt, but it doesn't help. note, 'i' not '1'586, but if the install cd is broken too, you're out of luck anyway. > What is the message actually telling me? That someone screwed up the CPU initialisation code. Can you file a bugzilla on this please ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk