Booting kernel with 4 mb ram

[Thomas Ditlev Petersen <33tdp@but.auc.dk>]

I would like to install debian-linux to my old notebook 486slc with 4 MB
ram.
For this pupose I have downloaded the low memory bootdisk, which should
be able to install debian to a 4 MB system. But when I use the disk, the
bootprompt appears as it should, but as I boot linux, the computer
reboots just after decompressing the kernel, and the disk boots again.
No messages pop up before the reboot.

 I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is, and I have tried
several different configurations in the BIOS.

Has anyone got any idea, why my computer will not boot linux.

thanks 

Thomas