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Hi! I'm new to Antix, and i love it! It sounded perfect for my old box: AMD K6 350 Mhz. 256M RAM. Right? Well here's what I've found. "Spartacus" runs fine on this box, and zips right along, no problem. But antix-M7-rc1 begins to load, then says:
PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel.

OK, I saw a hint in one of these forums, so I tried MEPIS-6.9.89 beta5, and look at that! ... PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel.

So it does appear that the latest kernel has dropped support for this old processor; but of course the whole point is that I want to revive this old box with Antix. Now I'm at the edge of my Linux skills, I don't know where to go next to attack this problem. Any ideas? I'll be glad to try whatever may help.

Thanks!

I'm seeing the same thing with a pentium 200MMX.
AntiX 6.5 will boot from CD but I haven't yet had success installing it. I think the installation problem is mine, not AntiX, and I would suggest installing 6.5 for now.

At the moment antiX-M7 uses an i686 kernel (The same as Mepis 7) and K5/K6 and I think PII is not supported.
I hope this will change in the future, but I will need help and advice in how to do so.
I'm not sure if simply reconfiguring the Mepis kernel for older hardware ie for i386 and including k5/k6 options will suffice.

So for those with such boxes, I'm afraid, at the moment, only Spartacus (antiX-Mepis6.5) will/should work.

Thanks anti. I am researching how to do this recompile for 386, but I may not be knowledgeable enough yet. I hope we solve it; I have M7 running on a newer box, and 6.5 on the old one, and now I want the M7 improvements on the old box as well!

Thanks again!

Thanks anti. I am researching how to do this recompile for 386, but I may not be knowledgeable enough yet. I hope we solve it; I have M7 running on a newer box, and 6.5 on the old one, and now I want the M7 improvements on the old box as well!

Thanks again!

I could take a shot at that

I used to make my own kernels when i used Libranet 2.8.1 - Sarge
(those were the days

But it seems it's harder to make a custom kernel work these days.

coyotito wrote:I could take a shot at that

I used to make my own kernels when i used Libranet 2.8.1 - Sarge
(those were the days

But it seems it's harder to make a custom kernel work these days.

It would be really appreciated.
I have managed to recompile the Mepis 2.6.22.9 kernel to i586 so k5/k6 is bootable (not k7 as I posted earlier) and from an already installed antiX-M7-rc1 it booted and worked relatively well.

But the problem I am having is getting it to work in a livecd.

See here:
http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showt ... hp?t=10461

I have AntiX-M7-rc1 on two boxes.

The first one is an old Dell Optiplex with a pII266 and 96meg of ram.

The second is a HP with a celeron 466 and 256 ram.

Both run well but hang when booting. They get as far as retrieving and address via dhcp. They get the address and then sit there for a couple of minutes and then finish booting. Don't know why but then all run good.

eriefisher

eriefisher

I have noticed this too, but only when running the livecd. Installed doesn't cause a hang at dchclient on my box.
Check that the /etc/resolve.conf has the correct address.

You may also want to do an
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

anticapitalista wrote:eriefisher

I have noticed this too, but only when running the livecd. Installed doesn't cause a hang at dchclient on my box.
Check that the /etc/resolve.conf has the correct address.

You may also want to do an
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Both boxes are point to the router (nameserver 192.168.0.1) so I don't think this is the problem.

I noticed in the menu that the install option is still there so I have to ask, Is this an actual full conventional install or does it just copy the files over similar to say Puppy linux?

eriefisher

It's a full conventional install. I haven't scripted it to be removed when antiX is installed to hd (don't know how to).

I've just booted the livecd with default options on a Pentium II/266 machine with 196MB of memory. It's the first distro I've tried on it from CD that has failed to automatically initialize the network card, but it does fully boot.
More later as I proceed...

I have the dhcp hang on this P3 test box. It worked fine under Spartacus but hangs for a minute or less on installed M7 (both rc1 & 2). Did apt-get update & upgrade's right after installing...still hangs.

This box will also not complete shutdown. Shutdown was complete on Spartacus.

impuwat wrote:I have the dhcp hang on this P3 test box. It worked fine under Spartacus but hangs for a minute or less on installed M7 (both rc1 & 2). Did apt-get update & upgrade's right after installing...still hangs.

This box will also not complete shutdown. Shutdown was complete on Spartacus.

I still have this problem and have not had time to look into it. Same with shut down. It goes to system halt and just sits there until I hit the power button.

If someone knows a fix please share.

eriefisher