Hi,

I have an old Pentium II system running Windows 98. I'm trying to boot up into Knoppix on it. I have a 3.8.1 disc I burned a year ago which I have used in many other systems (I'm going to download and burn the latest to give that a go as well).

When I boot with no cheat codes, it loads the kernel then gets as far as the screen where Tux appears then there is an error message which disappears too quickly for me to read and the machine reboots.

I tried the mem=128M code which produced the same result.

I tried failsafe which produced a kernel panic:

Kernel Panic - not syncing: Fatal Exception in interrupt
Call stack:
update_process_times
timer_interrupt
handle_IRQ_event
__do_IRQ
do_IRQ
common_interrupt
default_idle
default_idle
cpu_idle
start_kernel


My machine details:

Intel Pentium II 266
128 MB RAM
Intel i440 motherboard
ATI rage II AGP graphics
Yamaha OPL3 sound
Realtek RT8139 NIC

Any other details needed?

Thanks

Rob