Hello all,
I've already given up my old Acer Aspire 5100 few times, but everytime I'm ready to dump it I decide to try again, because I don't understand why I cannot get this old laptop to work with a very light Ubuntu distro or something.
It's a AMD Turion 62 X2 Mobile Tl-50, 64b, 1.75GB RAM
Got working keyword and wifi, perfect display and decent battery. So I would really like to make a use of it for some basic tasks.
Back in a day it worked with a Windows XP. A decade ago it got installed Lubuntu and I don't know the reason why it got installed a 32b version instead of 64b.
Fast forward these days, I'm like a mad person trying to get it to work.
My problem: 64b whatever distros all end up with the same error: "kernel panic - not syncing no working init found. try passing init= option to kernel".
Prior to it, it complains about memory availability.
32b distros instead they attempt to install. They don't fall in a kernel panic error, but they are stuck "installing" forever, there is no progress. This HD is noisy, and I hear nothing being written to it. And for hours (full night) there is no progress, so Im totally sure it does nothing.
I was able however to install Tiny Core distro. From there, I tried to fix whatever failing without really knowing what I was doing. I followed some instructions to format partitions (In my mind I wanted to "start it all over" to be able to install a 64b). I think I just made things worse.
So here I am, with a working Tiny Core distro, waiting for your advice not to dump this laptop. It works, with internet and everything. I have scanned memory with no errors, but it is weird that the system shows me a bunch less of memory than I should have:
grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
377616
It would be really great if you put me in the track to get this to work with a 64b linux distro.
Please let me know what command outputs or other info I have to provide.
Thank you very much in advance.
I've already given up my old Acer Aspire 5100 few times, but everytime I'm ready to dump it I decide to try again, because I don't understand why I cannot get this old laptop to work with a very light Ubuntu distro or something.
It's a AMD Turion 62 X2 Mobile Tl-50, 64b, 1.75GB RAM
Got working keyword and wifi, perfect display and decent battery. So I would really like to make a use of it for some basic tasks.
Back in a day it worked with a Windows XP. A decade ago it got installed Lubuntu and I don't know the reason why it got installed a 32b version instead of 64b.
Fast forward these days, I'm like a mad person trying to get it to work.
My problem: 64b whatever distros all end up with the same error: "kernel panic - not syncing no working init found. try passing init= option to kernel".
Prior to it, it complains about memory availability.
32b distros instead they attempt to install. They don't fall in a kernel panic error, but they are stuck "installing" forever, there is no progress. This HD is noisy, and I hear nothing being written to it. And for hours (full night) there is no progress, so Im totally sure it does nothing.
I was able however to install Tiny Core distro. From there, I tried to fix whatever failing without really knowing what I was doing. I followed some instructions to format partitions (In my mind I wanted to "start it all over" to be able to install a 64b). I think I just made things worse.
So here I am, with a working Tiny Core distro, waiting for your advice not to dump this laptop. It works, with internet and everything. I have scanned memory with no errors, but it is weird that the system shows me a bunch less of memory than I should have:
grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
377616
It would be really great if you put me in the track to get this to work with a 64b linux distro.
Please let me know what command outputs or other info I have to provide.
Thank you very much in advance.