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James Miller wrote:
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> > http://basiclinux.com.ru/download/x-initrd.gz
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> 
> Managed to sneak in a test during final stages of packing.  
> did startx: screen goes blank black and just sits there.  
> After a short time, if I do ctrl-alt-F2 

ctrl-alt-backspace is the standard exit from X.

> with some error messages on the screen as follows:
> 
> sigaction for smart scheduler: Function not implemented
> Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM

I've seen that "Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM".
It happened when my DOS configuration was interferring with 
Xvesa.  I suggest you boot a bare DOS, without CONFIG.SYS 
and AUTOEXEC.BAT, and see if that makes a difference.

> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> Memory fault
>
> Too little RAM, perhaps?

That seems to be what the "Memory fault" is indicating.
There are several ways we could try to get around this:
(1) using a swap partition  -or-
(2) turning off shadow RAM in the BIOS  -or-
(3) rawriting x-initrd to a floppy  -or-
(4) getting x-initrd onto an HD partition

Once you are settled in after your move, we can have
another look at this.

Cheers,
Steven