User Feedback :: Black screen without failsafe

I love DSL, its a great way to get introduced to linux.

But...

When I first booted with no options it worked fine.

Now I don't even get DSL X Setup unless I use failsafe.
I mucked around with the settings but does it automatically save restore information? Because everything I changed seems to be discarded.

Delete the backup.tar.gz file on your storage device (hard drive, thumb drive, etc) and your backedup files will be erased and you will be returned to the original livecd state.

If you don't want to lose your backup, you can instead rename the file to something like backup.tar.gz.old

and then try DSL again.

If you like, you can "undo" your changes by merely renaming the file back to "backup.tar.gz"

Can't find anything, which partition would it normally use?
Could the unformatted or NTFS drive confuse it?

hda1 : 40gb NTFS (WinXP)
hdb1 : 32gb unformatted
hdb2 : 32gb FAT32
hdb3 : 10gb FAT32

EDIT: The DSL X Setup doesn't even show when booting with
boot: vga=normal
boot: vga=7??

Try to run dsl using dsl 2. This will not start X. At the prompt you can run xsetup.sh to reconfigure you're .xserverrc file in /home/dsl.
When you reboot the new version should be backupped in backup.tar.gz. Normally the /home/dsl is listed in the .filetool.lst in /home/dsl. This file contains the files/dirs to backup. If you want to start cleanly. Rename backup.tar.gz. Is probably is located in the root of the hdb2 or hdb3. (During boot a script looks for backup.tar.gz on 1 of the harddisks I think even though you didn't specify that is should....)

THT.,

Remco

The only two places where it could reside is

/mnt/hdb2

or

/mnt/hdb3

DSL can't write to the other ones.

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