so Ive got some old i686 computers, electronics recycle day approaches, but before I do that, I thought Id try to get them working
1st one (toshiba satellite core2 laptop) threw a hard-drive, clunking noises, then finally falls back to pxe-boot. I put fedora-30-live on a usb (last one with i686 support) but booting it, I get a 2-line error: This kernel requires x86-64, but only detected i686 unable to boot - ... I know f30 supports i686 - I have 1 old desktop still running it. next is hp pavilion g7 pressing power gives brief spin-up of fans, nothing else. f2, f10, esc during boot dont help, screen brightness or vga monitor dont help either I pulled hard drive and memory to force BIOS / POST to do something different, NO CHANGE. Any suggestions? but at least I have a new/old hard-drive for the toshiba. I also have a dell pentium2-233, running knoppix with a 2.6.19 kernel, its reluctant to do anything (aptitude is trying forever) I think its too old to have a bios that can usb boot I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines in the past, but Im running out of options. I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware thanks
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