Release Candidates :: DSL v3.1 RC3



I have some problems running Rc3 on a IBM Thinkpad 240. Which has an NeoMagic graphic chip. The screen is unreadable with yellow lines all over the desktop. This seams to be a x-server bug or implemantation failure....
gentlemanRT: I don't think that's specific to this RC... you could check out other forum sections on other user's experiences with thinkpads/neomagic.
Quote (roberts @ Nov. 08 2006,17:35)
Key, I finally got my hands on a write protectable pendrive. It is a Kingston drive, with a write protect switch on the side. Installed DSL frugal_hdd to the pendrive, write enabled, of course! Then shutdown system. Placed the write protected standard boot floppy in foppy drive, and moved the switch on the pendrive to write protect. Plugged in the write protected pendrive and booted DSL. No problems.

The only way I can cause an error code to display, is when I add the boot option frugal. But of course, that would! Boot code frugal is not appropriate on a read only device.

Thanks for this Information, roberts.

Unfortunately, I haven't had success with the USB-HDD installation. Either there where problems during installation or during boot-process afterwards. I don't remember exactly.
Probably USB-HDD isn't fully supported on my old computer.
USB-ZIP works fine on all computers, I have tested.

But, with boot-floppy first and write-protected usb-pen (usb-zip installation) second, I have got the following errors during boot process:

"{CRE}looking for DSL image in ....
Setting paths: .. not found
.. not found .. not found ..
directory nonexistent
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1:03"

Keyboard LEDs blink and I had to power of the computer.

There is no problem when the usb-pen is write enabled.
With the write-enabled switch, it works fine.
Doesn't matter, if boot-floppy is used before or not.

If the usb-pen is write-protected, it boots fine WITHOUT the boot-floppy. As soon as a boot-floppy is used before in conntection with the write-protected usb-pen, the boot fails as written above.

Where is the problem with this usb-pen-zip installation?
Is it possible to make this working?
Key, This is not really an RC issue. But nevertheless, I did try with USB-ZIP write protected and write protected boot floppy. Worked just fine. I know my write protect switch is functioning, as USB-ZIP creates two partitions. When I try to mount the second partition, it gives the warning about a write-protected device. I use the standard boot floppy with the fromusb boot option. Also was able to boot directly from write protected USB-ZIP. It's too bad that there are not better standards in usb booting from the actual pendrives, geometry and sometimes hidden drives, to the computer bios and their ability to find and boot based on the myriad of these drive parameters. Reminds me of the early days of cdrom drives and each needed their own dos drivers.
gentlemanRT, your issue is not an RC issue. However, because the TP240 is a machine I use everyday, I can tell you to boot with fb800x600 and it works great. At the very first boot prompt use...

boot: fb800x600

Do not use
boot: dsl fb800x600
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