Laptops :: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT



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Yes; I can run dsl-hdinstall without difficulty, and I've verified that the files are be copied across: It's definitely working. It only fails to write when I boot from the floppy and at the boot prompt: dsl tohd=/dev/hda2


"dsl tohd=/dev/hda2" is NOT the command to create a
HDInstall...
You HAVE been speaking of a HDInstall, right?

"dsl tohd=/dev/hda2" is for creating a "poorman's" install
only copying the compressed cd data to the HD.
It emulates the cdrom data , but not the BOOT ..

It is RUNNING from the Hard Drive.., not BOOTING from it.

You STILL need either the floppy or the CDROM
to bootup a "dsl tohd= " , even after you have copied all the data.

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ke4nt
It can't do either; I can get into X without a problem (booting from floppy, loading from cd), and I can kick of the hdinstall from in there, and it works, but I get memory failures (segmentation again) when I reboot. If I try a poormans install, it comes back with 0k available on partition - irregardless of the partition I try. ??? I've tried copying /knoppix/ across from another bootfloppy distro (This is how I first ran dsl), and when I rebooted from the floppy it picked up the files on the disk and booted without a problem.

It looks like for the meantime - at least until I can figure out how to get the kernel to accept my switches when booting from dsl installed on the hd - I'm going to have to go with that option - copying /knoppix/ manually, and booting from floppy.

Or is there another choice... ???
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You STILL need either the floppy or the CDROM
to bootup a "dsl tohd= " , even after you have copied all the data.


Yeah, I'd thought about this also: The external floppy is interchangeable with the cd-rom, so if I do a poormans install from a seperate bootdisk I could swap the drives over, and work no problems at all.

However, given that currently the machine doesn't have net access, that leaves me unable to use any other input medium but floppy disks :laugh: Suffice to say, it's not ideal :D
Where in "syslinux.cfg" do I add "mem=16M"

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Where in "syslinux.cfg" do I add "mem=16M"


if you open it up in your favourite editor, you'll see it's broken into sections named after what you hit into the boot prompt - eg fb800x600, failsafe, that kind of thing. You'll notice that at the bottom there is a BLANK entry called USERDEF - simply fill in the necessary details/switches, boot from the floppy and at the boot prompt type userdef

To get this laptop booting I needed to start with vga=788 and mem=16M, eg:

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LABEL userdef
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND ramdisk_size=2304 init=/etc/init lang=uk vga=788 mem=16M noapic nousb nopcmcia nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=miniroot.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix


The settings may vary, but this is what I required to boot up. In the case of the ramdisk, I found anything above an 8Mb disk would cause the machine to have a similar 'segmentation' error, so I've managed to trim it down to 2304k, but any smaller and you'll have trouble. You'll most likely have to 'play' with these settings to get it working for your machine.

Google for kernel switches to get a full list of what you can do.
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