Problems with CDROM installing on ThinkPad 600

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/1/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install a fresh version of Linux on my 8 year old ThinkPad
> 600 which is currently running SuSE 9.2 Pro in hopes that my wife can take
> it on a trip to get wireless access.  The only wireless I've been able to
> make work on the  SuSE is a USB.
>
> When attempting to install CentOS 4.5, CentOS 5.0 it throws a panic after
> loading the kernel from CD, apparently trying to access the CDROM.  Knoppix
> 4.0.2 boots successfully, but Knoppix 5.0.1 hangs very early on, apparently
> attempting to access the CD.
>
> There is no floppy attached to the machine.
>
> Any ideas why this won't boot?
>
> I'm downloading xubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso in hopes that may work, but
> it will be another half-hour before that's complete.
>
> The machine is an ThinkPad 600 circa August 1999, 256MB RAM, with a DVD
> drive.  I have a pretty good selection of PCMCIA wireless and network
> cards, most of which SuSE 9.2 doesn't recognize.

What exactly does this kernel panic look like?  Have you tried booting
with noapic and/or acpi=off kernel parameters?

You might want to give the Fedora Live CD a whirl too.

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