Damn Small Linux - Not!

smoker · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

Hi,
I've just downloaded and burned the dsl-n-0.1RC1.iso all of which went ok.
I just tried to boot my sony vaio laptop and I can't get past the audit stage. As this laptop is 2001 vintage, there is an age issue with the bios but even when I use pnpbios=off acpi=off and failsafe boot options the same issue occurs. DSL-n starts to boot, gets to the following line:
audit(1151277310.352:0):initialized
and then after about 3 seconds, the cursor disappears and nothing more happens. I have left it for 10 minutes but no joy. The only way out is a hard reset.

Any ideas ?

The laptop is a Sony Vaio with 256 RAM and a 1gig amd processor. It runs DSL fine, as well as [k|g]noppix and insert etc from bootable cds.
The DSL-n image was downloaded and burned under FC4

TIA

Winter Knight · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 65

I had a similar problem with knoppix a while back.

I burned the CD without issue. I booted up, and I experienced pretty much what you described. I doublechecked the iso checksum, and it was fine. I even checked the checksums of each of the files on the CD. They were all the same as the checksums of the same files on the iso.

No what worked? I burned another CD. This new one worked fine. For the life of me, I could not detect one single difference between the first and second CDs. Except that the second one worked, and first one is in a dump somewhere. (Contrary to popular folklore, aluminum does not make a good coaster.)

Sometimes CDs burn better if you force the burn speed down to 4x or 8x.