06-19-2018, 01:57 PM
[member=7701]kpanic[/member]
All the advice you have given so far is thoughtful and accurate. I'm only guessing that he is on a machine with 32bit BIOS. If the memory is 2gig and the HDD small that can often be the case. It was common on such lower end hardware for there to be BIOS persistent RAM that expected a 32bit partition. Usually POST will report an addressing error when booting on such machines, and Debian will report a 32bit address breaking warning. Most of these low end BIOS allow F1 to continue booting after the POST warning if you can get the system installed. The other workaround is that dual booting usually works ok on these machines but in order to remove Windows afterwards you must first de-fragment & shrink the Windows partition, then copy it to a new partition, then format the old partition to ext4 and install Linux there, then remove Windows and add the partition space onto the new Linux partition after Linux is up and running. None of these low end BIOS machines came with a Windows installation disk. Imagine that. Your input since joining the forum has been excellent.
TC
All the advice you have given so far is thoughtful and accurate. I'm only guessing that he is on a machine with 32bit BIOS. If the memory is 2gig and the HDD small that can often be the case. It was common on such lower end hardware for there to be BIOS persistent RAM that expected a 32bit partition. Usually POST will report an addressing error when booting on such machines, and Debian will report a 32bit address breaking warning. Most of these low end BIOS allow F1 to continue booting after the POST warning if you can get the system installed. The other workaround is that dual booting usually works ok on these machines but in order to remove Windows afterwards you must first de-fragment & shrink the Windows partition, then copy it to a new partition, then format the old partition to ext4 and install Linux there, then remove Windows and add the partition space onto the new Linux partition after Linux is up and running. None of these low end BIOS machines came with a Windows installation disk. Imagine that. Your input since joining the forum has been excellent.
TC
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