does if motherboard have on-board video? try specifying say 8 megs less ram. do you get to the point of "initializing ram disk"? maybe a different cd reader is the answer?
On Sunday 23 December 2001 22:55, you wrote: > This is a re-post because I have new information now: > > I am able to run the installer on my old Mint Pentium 133MHz 96MB > machine. So the ISO-image I downloaded and the CD-ROM I burned are not > the problem. Any ideas? Is my HP just incompatible? (;_;) > > Thanks! > > p.s. The installer looks much nicer than the RedHat installer. :-) > > Original note: > > Hi. I just downloaded the install ISO image for Mandrake 8.1 and burned a > CD-ROM from it. Then I restarted my computer and the Mandrake > installation program started up. I pressed Enter and after a bunch of > lines on the screen the process stopped with the following error message: > > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > I tried this again, pressing F1 instead of Enter and choosing various > other installations, such as vgalo. But they all resulted in the same > error. > > Does this mean my hardware is just not supported? > > It is an HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion 2000, Celeron 400 MHz, 192 MB RAM. > > Thanks, > > Doug Lerner, Tokyo
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