Damjan <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you running with no swap now? use "free" to find out?


hmm, my first attempts to respond disappeared into the ether
somewhere..

I did check the md5sums on the 12.1 iso downloads. I am running
ext2 filesystems. I would get lines like the following in dmesg:

ldconfig[2789]: segfault at 3026c7b3 eip 0806400b esp bfe27b88 error 4


After a few more days of fiddling around, things are a bit better,
but still weird.

There is an older version of ldconfig on the 12.1 boot iso, and
it works! So I copied into the laptop /sbin directory, and now
it boots! I now have a working laptop, but I'm also pretty uneasy
that something somewhere is deeply wrong with this box.

I have the same setup on a Dell desktop at work (using the newer
ldconfig) and have had none of these difficulties.


Steve