Laptops :: Live CD freezes while starting up

Hey I have been trying to install a linux distro on my laptop for some time now with only failures. I have tried making a live cd of dsl 2.3 and booting up and it all goes well until the penguin appears in the top left corner of the screen and all the text starts appearing. What happens is is that it totally locks up when it says:

"Processor 0 is Pentium II (Deschutes) 266MHz 512KB Cache)"

I am not sure what to do!

Have you tried using the failsafe cheat code? Press F2 at start to see the list for some cheat codes.

Hey thanks for the reply! Alright I'll have to try that. What does failsafe do if you dont mind me asking?

Most toshibas that I've used DSL on require a boot code of 'nopcmcia' if there is not a pcmcia card in the slot. So try:

DSL nopcmcia

plus whatever other codes you need when you boot from the CD

Try booting with:

dsl mem=32M

Where "32" is the size of your RAM in megabytes.

Also, "mem" is lowercase and the "M" at the end is uppercase.

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