====== Debian GNU/Linux on the Asus Eee PC 1201K ======

I installed **Debian 10 Buster** on the **Asus Eee PC 1201K**, with only **1 Gb of RAM** and 150 Gb of disk. Notice that the CPU requires an **i386 architecture**. The installation is quite slow, but it completes without problems.

I encountered **a problem at the first boot** after installation: the boot process failed with several **ACPI errors** and a nasty **PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found**. The boot finished into the **initramfs prompt** where I can check that no kernel modules were loaded and no devices were available, mainly the hard disk was missing. Loading all the kernel modules via **modprobe** do not solve anything, the kernel does not detect the hard disk.

I finally solved the problem by installing the **linux-image-4.19.0-0.bpo.6-686** and removing the **pae** version: linux-image-4.19.0-8-686-pae.

Installing a new package on a non-booting installation is not trivial, here it is a step-by-step guide:

  * Start the **installation program** (I used a netinst USB stick).
  * Proceed with the installation untill **network is configured**.
  * Interrupt the installation and choose **Execute a shell** from the menu.

Now you can mount the Debian installed into the hard disk and do a **chroot** in it:

<code>
mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
</code>

Inside the chroot environment, you can download and **install the new kernel package** and do whatever you need.