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Lunas_Inferno
Hello everyone, I’m new here and this is my first post. I am moderately experienced with linux (I daily zorin os on my main pc). To get to the point, I have a compaq presario 5838 with a 800 mhz amd athlon processor and 512 mb of sdram in it. I am trying to install antix linux onto it but I cant even get past the initial boot select screen for it without it instantly having a kernel panic. I’ve tried doing research on why this is happening and possible solutions but I havn’t found anyone else that has had this exact issue nor have any of the solutions for problems that were similar worked (or done anything different). ive tried using both the 386 core and 386 full iso’s, both of them have the same issue. am I using the wrong version of antix? below is a pic of what the screen displays when antix tries to boot.
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Robin
am I using the wrong version of antix? below is a pic of what the screen displays when antix tries to boot.
🙂 In order to get an answer to this question I believe it would have been essential you had at least reported, which precise antiX version you have been trying.
Generally I can state, that antiX full runs fine on athlon thunderbird and athlon XP, and it runs faster when later installing the 686 version of 4.x kernel. But it should start on the default 4.x kernel present in the ISO.
Have you checked the checksum of the downloaded files to make sure they have not been damaged on transport?
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
RJP
Compaq presario 5838 is far too weak for modern operating system, so I suggest that you use stronger computer.
http://www.computer-specifications.com/specifications/Compaq-Presario5838-Specs.html
Xunzi_23
@RJP, may I politely suggest you refrain from posting alternative facts.
Robin knows what he is talking about, from practical experience….
The device will not be very fast but unless defective, with antiX usable
for many tasks.One trick is to make a swap-USB stick, so antiX sees and uses that swap, so it helps in the resource thing. The swap-USB is a good tool for helping installing in old hardware.
sorry haha, Was pretty tired when I wrote that post last night. The version I’ve been trying is antix 22. yes, the checksums have been verified. they are fine.
I had the realization last night that how I am booting this computer to usb might be causing some issue, I’m using a floppy disk boot program that then allows the computer to boot to usb since it has no bios option for that. I have also tried burning the antix core to cdrom and booting that but it runs into the same issue. This computer does have a dvd drive that works but I havn’t been able to boot up anything using it. I am going to try changing the drive orientation to get the computer to recognize and boot from the dvd drive instead of the cd drive and try burning the antix full iso to dvd and booting that. oh, I should say that this computer is confirmed to work, it has a install of windows 98 on it and it boots up just fine, I’ve even used it to play some games. I also forgot to mention that this computer uses a voodoo 3 graphics card, hopefully that’s not whats causing issues haha.
I am gonna try what I just mentioned and I’ll update y’all on the results.
heavy metal
Hi everybody, this may be related to your issue, maybe this helps, I was trying a couple of days ago LXLE on one of my computers and almost all the times I got a kernel panic when shutting down or restarting, the fix was to change kernels, I changed the kernel from the default 5.4 to 5.11 and that fixed the issue, no more kernel panic, maybe you have to do the same, change the kernel and see what happens, hope this helps, good luck!
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Brian Masinick
Hi everybody, this may be related to your issue, maybe this helps, I was trying a couple of days ago LXLE on one of my computers and almost all the times I got a kernel panic when shutting down or restarting, the fix was to change kernels, I changed the kernel from the default 5.4 to 5.11 and that fixed the issue, no more kernel panic, maybe you have to do the same, change the kernel and see what happens, hope this helps, good luck!
You are absolutely right! I’ve had incredible success with the vast majority of kernels over the years, but not PERFECT success. For me, after over twenty years of overwhelming success and only a couple of issues with a small handful of distributions, I ran into a fairly consistent issue with the 5.10 kernel. It didn’t matter whose 5.10 kernel, my Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop struggled with it. Ironically a lot of other people had SUCCESS with this same kernel, in some cases for the first time. That’s why in the Linux space there are many different options, because one solution really doesn’t suit 100% of the situations. As wonderful as our distribution is, while we support a wide variety of systems, the very newest ones are a challenge right now, at least until our next release comes out, then that release will support some newer hardware at the expense of dropping off others. We keep a couple of releases updated in order to provide something that works as much as possible.
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Brian MasinickOkay, so I tried making a live cd of the antix 22 386 full but it runs into the same kernel panic issue. I’ll try using a different kernel and see what happens.
Brian Masinick
In case you can benefit from the information, we have the following kernels available, though not all of these are installed by default.
There are more kernels than this if you stretch beyond antiX borders.In December 2021, we had these kernels available:
5.10.88
4.19-222
4.9.0-294
4.4.0-296These have been updated; the 4.4 and 4.9 kernels are no longer maintained, and the 4.19 and 5.10 kernels have newer revisions.
The current images are:
5.10.142
4.19.202and we now have a 6.1.10 version for the upcoming “Bookworm” release and a 6.1.11 version for the current “Bullseye” release.
There are many more antiX kernels still in the repository, though not all of them have the most current security updates, and as I mentioned, many of them are no longer officially supported, which means that security and vulnerability measures are not necessarily up to date.
If you go outside of the antiX repositories there are numerous kernels that should work fine with antiX. These include Debian kernels, Liquorix kernels and xanmod1 kernels. Personally I do not recommend them for the casual user because there is no effective way we can help and assist with issues unless one of us happens to have the same hardware and the time to install and examine other kernels. Enthusiasts with “experience” and the ability to fix broken systems may do whatever they wish at their own risk.
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