Hi
I am trying out tcl for the first time on a Compaq Armada laptop E500 Pentium3 with 256MB ram and am getting the above boot message. TinyCore appears to load ok but does not find the ethernet connection and I have not been able to configure this on the control panel.
This computer will run Puppy Linux with no problems. In fact, I have never had this problem with Puppy and have been using it since v. 1.07 and likewise, DSL 4.4.10 works flawlessly on this machine and dhcps to the ethernet connection with no problems.
I spent some time attempting to install light versions of Ubuntu on this computer and the above problem came up every time, however.
I have searched the tcl forum and others have had this problem but did not seem to find a solution. From what I have found, the laptop's APIC is obviously challenged and would not give problems with Windows but is a difficulty with Linux.
It does seem that this problem can be addressed in the linux kernel? In the operating system anyway.
I am hopeful that a solution to this is found because TinyCore appears ideal for these old laptops.
Russell