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? >
Belenix uses a math library that requires the SSE2 instruction set which a P3 does not support. As of Belenix 0.7.1, you will not be able to boot on this computer. During the startup, there'd be some service or the other which would make SSE2 calls, and the system would drop to maintenance mode. We are aware of this problem, and are planning to use the FreeBSD math library on systems that do not have SSE2. For Belenix 0.8, we're busy rebuilding everything with the P3 as a target. We've decided to make the P3 our base architecture instead of P4. > Thanks, > Abhishek > -- Sriram
