Laptops :: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT

When trying to boot with:

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LABEL userdef KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND ramdisk_size=2304 init=/etc/init lang=uk vga=788 nosound noapic noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=miniroot.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

I receive the original...

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Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx ... Segmentation fault"

...error (and a susbtantial quantity of hex!) I reported (it appears to do this thrice) - this is the furthest I have managed to get through the process yet. From here. it pops up:

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<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting INIT: No inittab file found Enter runlevel:

Now I've been through this, and neither 2 nor 5 will allow me to process futher (neither will any other number, for that matter). It simply returns:

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INIT: Entering runlevel: x INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

 

Now, I slept for six hours whilst it was at that screen (which has a flashing cursor underneath, but no prompt) and nothing happened. So I'm off to get drunk, and with any luck it'll have magically sorted itself out when I return.

Aloha

Neither my attempt to get drunk, nor my attempt to further the dsl  install succeeded. I'm still simply hanging at the 'no more processes in this runlevel'

Is there anyway to start dsl from within something like tomsrtbt where I can set and activate a swap partition to alleviate my memory worries?

*cough*

Well, adding mem=16M to the syslinux.cfg seems to have done the job

What can I say? STFW?

   

Your patience in not flaming me to death for being an imbecile is appreciated, and I'm now up in X: DSL rocks