Id "x" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutesForum: Laptops Topic: Id "x" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes started by: bushpig7 Posted by bushpig7 on May 10 2007,23:06
Hello Maybe someone has encountered this prob before. I am trying to install to HDD on an ambra laptop ts30at (486dx4 20mbram, 300mb/hda2partition/ext2, 80mb/hda3swap, no cdrom, no network) I installed it to hd on another laptop that has cdrom (233mmx 72mb ram) and then transfered the drive to the 486. the result is slow but steady booting until just after the knoppix "configuring hardware" bar then I get bus error and two i/o error messages then "cannot execute /etc/init.d/rcS" then the ID "4" respawning..........etc. no more processes left in this runlevel. five minutes later it repeats the same message. I don't know a lot about DSL or even linux for that matter. I'll bet there is someone out there that does! Posted by curaga on May 11 2007,15:25
Probably out-of-memory.. Put that hd back to the other lappy, and boot it. Did you format the swap? (mkswap /dev/hda3) Then enable it while booted DSL (swapon /dev/hda3). Then edit that boot loader line (/boot/lilo.conf APPEND line if lilo, or /boot/grub/menu.lst for grub) by adding "lowram" to it...Then reboot while still on that lappy, to make sure you did it correctly... Posted by bushpig7 on May 12 2007,13:20
Thanks for respondingI tried what you said: ie the "swapon" and the "lowram" option I still get the same error messages: "/etc/rcS.d/S00Knoppix-autoconfig: line1: runlevel: command not found" "cannot execute /etc/init.d/rcS line42 11 bus error $i start" "entering runlevel: 5" "cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc" "Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" The installation operates fine in the pentium laptop but so far I can't get past the point mentioned above in the 486. has anyone got any other ideas? Posted by curaga on May 12 2007,13:54
486's ram may be corrupt. Or some I/O controller in it not supported...
Posted by bushpig7 on May 12 2007,16:27
OK!so I guess DSL is not an option then for this old laptop. I might try delilinux or (sigh) go back to win95 (which does work) or win 98 (which also will work). I wanted to see how small a system I could get dsl to work on. funny thing is.. I did get it to work using the tohd option but it was just a desktop, completely usless without a working mouse. lsmod revealed no loaded modules. there was no way to get anything to even run (except ctr/alt/del). Posted by WDef on May 20 2007,22:13
Mmm, it'll run win98?20mb ram is sailing pretty close to the breeze with dsl. There have been people on this forum in the past that specialize in getting dsl going on atticware. I seem to remember reading something about only a specific type of 486 working however. |