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Henry Bremridge wrote: >Was trying to run Ubuntu on a old desktop but failed: the only error >message I could see was "Kernel loaded" but the machine would stick on >"Loading key drivers" > >Was planning to give the machine away as a safe machine so this is >irritating > >Odd thing is that Knoppix runs just fine > >Any ideas about what I can try > > >-- >Henry >Sun Oct 8 13:54:26 BST 2006 > > > > was this a Ubuntu or Ubuntu (Alternative). I have had to build machines with the alternative disk (even though they had the minimum memory requirements) before because of resource problems, although to be fair I got past basic kernel loading etc. Also (I know this may sound patronising) but you are not trying a 64bit version disk on a 32bit machine by any chance ? Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html