Discussion between jstrieb and ryekayo

10:17 PM

Q: Mysterious Reboot Preventing Debian from Loading

I recently picked up a cheap, oldish computer at a yard sale. It contained a 80GB SATA hard drive with Windows XP, but I want to turn it into a LAN FTP server, so I tried to set up dual-booting Debian on a secondary, 160GB IDE hard drive. The installation itself went fine, returning no errors, an...

ryekayo

You may have checked this already but seeing how you got this from a yard sale, have you checked the condition of the RAM sticks?

jstrieb

@ryekayo They appeared fine, and I ran the memtest. No issues.

ryekayo

Hmm that is odd, how old is the PC?

jstrieb

@ryekayo I can't tell for sure, but I'm guessing early 2000s. It should be able to run everything just fine, I already verified that.

ryekayo

And the installation meets the CPU requirements? If that is so, you should run a hardware test on the CPU.

jstrieb

10:17 PM

@ryekayo I will double check that. You're suggesting I run a hardware test from XP? Also, if it was a CPU problem, why would the live boots work?

ryekayo

Either will do since i would test on both OS's though

Im not suggesting the CPU is bad but maybe the CPU is not supported by Debian

jstrieb

@ryekayo I will check, but I'm still confused as to how the CPU could not support a native Debian install but could successfully allow it to live boot.

ryekayo

I would look up the minimum requirements for Debian and see if the PC covers it, also another question: Is Debian 32bit or 64bit?

jstrieb

I set it up with 32-bit Debian and it's a 32-bit computer.

ryekayo

Hi jstrieb
I am talking to u off my phone since i dont have My PC on me

Hmmm im not sure why its not taking it then. Id check debians cpu requirements

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