[Sheflug] Suggestions for Linux on an old Sony Vaio

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've got an old Sony Vaio PCGA-R500 laptop (from memory - it's at home,
I'm not). It doesn't have an optical drive, so to get Linux on it, I've
installed it from another laptop that does have an optical drive. It
boots up (GRUB), but during the load, I see a message similar to
"waiting for hda1 to come up" and "waiting for hda2 to come up".
Eventually, both these time out and I'm dumped in a very restrictive
(GRUB?) shell. I can't ls or anything like that.

Can anyone suggest what I could do to get this box up and running?

TIA,

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David Morris

 
 

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