Abhishek, 256Mb is too low for Belenix.. 512 is minimum, and >768 Mb is recommended.
You can try a minimalistic opensolairs distro like Milax on this machine. milax.org ~Anil On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Abhishek Mishra <ideamonk at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm pretty new to BeleniX so after a presentation at last lug meetup, > I decided to put it in an old machine - P3 800 Mhz, 256 Mb ram, 40Gb > hdd and other old things. The earlier tryout of Belenix under > virtualbox worked fine, but on my old machine the CD goes into > maintenance mode after boot selection menu, and I am prompted the > following - > > Boot password for maintenance mode (control-d to skip): > > And I'm unable to proceed further, I know how n00bish this sounds but > neither does pressing control-d help nor entering a password. > What could be wrong here? Any boot options to try out or any changes > to bios configuration? > > Thanks, > Abhishek > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
