Ok, I thought i'd start a new thread.

I created a bootable CD using BurnAtOnce. I went into the BIOS and set it to boot from the CD drive first. Then restarted it with the CD in, it said:

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Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM

Loading Stage2 .

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I just tried it on a Win XP home laptop and it worked, but it wont work on my Win 98 desktop

Adam

Hardware must be to old/short of mermory --- try Kanotix it will boot on just about any spec pc

If I wiped Win 98 off first would it work, as its short of memory?? The HD is 20gb and 128mb ram, which meets the requirements on the mepis site.

Adam

[Edited on 24-4-05 by phelpsa]

I will try downloading Mepis 3.3 and see if it makes any difference.

Adam

I had a similar issue a while back when testing a SuSE distro-on-CD.

There was a switch you could set for ACPI I think it was. Putting ACPI=no or off or somesuch did the job on a PII with 128MB

Cheers,

Neil

where abouts do I do this??

Adam

P.S. Thanks for all your help!!

Edit:~ Worked it out, but it still didnt work. Anymore suggestions??

[Edited on 24-4-05 by phelpsa]

Happened again with Simplymepis 3.3

Adam

Ive found what it is!

I have an AMD-K6-2 processor which mepis doesnt support. Apparantly Kanotix does though.

Adam

[Edited on 24-4-05 by phelpsa]

Tried to install kanotix and it comes up exactly the same except Loading Stage1.5

What am I doing wrong????

Adam