Re: Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

I tried with a new stick of crucial 256MB DDR today, and the problem
was exactly identical, so it's probably not the memory.

I would try the latest pre-patch kernel, but I am not sure how go do about
doing that since I can't get a distro to load...

Ben


Ben Greear wrote:
> I got a cute (and very quiet) SS40 bare-bones system.  I put an
> Athlon 1.8 and 256MB DDR (Generic, Samsung chips), and a cheap Maxtor 
> 20GB HD.
> 
> RH 7.3 crashes (signal 11) in the /sbin/loader.
> 
> RH 7.2 Locks hard while transferring the image to the HD, but at least
>   it gets a little way into the install.
> 
> Mandrake 8.2  crashes (similar to RH 7.3, it appears) in the second
> stage loader.
> 
> So, I'm curious if anyone has managed to get Linux on one of these guys?
> 
> Here are the hardware specs:
> http://www.shuttle.com/english/mcs_detail_info.asp?number=174
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 



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