anti-X 19 won’t load on a Pentium M

[Member davidrnewman]

An old error has come back. When I try to load antiX 19 32 bit from a CD on an old Pentium M machine I get this error:

Segmentation fault
Fatal Error
Neither aufs nor overlayfs is available

I am using the standard antiX 19 32 bit image downloaded from https://antixlinux.com/download/

[Moderator BobC]

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Did you check the SHA256 or MD5 sums on the file you burned?
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/checking-integrity-of-downloaded-iso-files/
https://mxlinux.org/tag/md5/

If that was good, then I wonder if the CD burned ok? Try booting it in a different PC and check the CD using the options on the boot menu

 F4: Miscellaneous Options

You can only select one of these options. If you want more than one then you will need to type some of them in manually. Normally checkfs, savestate, and nosavestate are only useful on the LiveUSB or a frugal install.

checkmd5 ... Check integrity of the install media.
checkfs ... Check integrity of the LivUSB and persistent file systems.

If it booted ok on another machine, and the checks said the CD was good, Then is the reader is reading it ok? Listen to the CD drive for it retrying…

[Member davidrnewman]

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The CD worked fine on 4 other old computers. I wonder if it needs to do something different on a Pentium M.

This is a bug that was found and fixed 2 years ago. It seems to have returned.

[Moderator BobC]

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Since you know it was a bug that was found and fixed 2 years ago, I suggest you look that discussion up and ask the person that fixed it.

Did you try a different kernel that you have used on that machine before? I see kernel versions being discussed in relation to that error, but no specific answers, and I can’t tell if they are related to your PC or not.

[Member Robin]

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1.) Even if the CD boots perfectly on some other machines, there is a chance it might have corrupted areas right in a place needed for this very hardware, and doesn’t concern other computers. So please perform the checksum test BobC has suggested already.

2.) Please perform a memory test on your pc to make sure there is not a bad area. It is included on any antiX cd, I believe.

3.) Sometimes wrong settings of memory timing can cause such segmentation faults. Try to slow these down a bit in BIOS, if possible.

I have running here an Pentium M 32 bit running perfectly on antiX 19.x (as well as on 17.4.1).

Architecture:        i686
CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit
Byte Order:          Little Endian
Address sizes:       32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
CPU(s):              1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core:  1
Core(s) per socket:  1
Socket(s):           1
NUMA node(s):        1
Vendor ID:           GenuineIntel
CPU family:          6
Model:               13
Model name:          Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
Stepping:            8
CPU MHz:             1733.000
CPU max MHz:         1733,0000
CPU min MHz:         800,0000
BogoMIPS:            3458.00
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0
Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx bts cpuid est tm2 pti

So Pentium M as itself is probably not the culprit.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Anonymous]

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hello davidrnewman,

I checked 19.4-core cd and it boots fine on my 1.4ghz pentium m.
It might be the cd drive needs cleaning as your disk worked in
other machines fine.

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