Stalled Boot

[david]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> It's an old machine so maybe your hittng the bootable address space 
> limit? Don't remember the details. But the cure is creating a small 
> (100 MB?)  /boot partition as the first partition when you install.
>
> On 8/1/06, *david* <papabeardk at comporium.net 
> <mailto:papabeardk at comporium.net>> wrote:
>
>     I have run into a problem, and have found this several times on
>     several
>     computers. The boot up process stalls.
>
>     I loaded a HD with xubuntu 6.06
>     Installed the HD into an older Gateway system (PII 350, 256 mg Ram, 6
>     Gig HD, DVD Rom)
>
>     The grub loaded and screen shifted to initial text
>     Gets to Save Default and then Boot  Then stalls.
>
>     Normally the next line is the linux kernal starting up.
>
>     I have found this several times on another machine, and ended up
>     loading
>     Suse on that machine.
>
>     Has anyone else run into this, and found a solution?
>
>     David K
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