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I'm having a similar problem... except I dont see anything after the kernel boot.

I'm having a little problem with this old Presario 700 (AMD Athlon 4 256MB RAM) I am unable to get DSL working, the live CD boots accordingly, however once I have typed my selection or just pressed enter, I get nothing. A blank screen... ok that qualifies as something. But nevertheless a blank screen. I allowed it to boot for 4 hours and still no reaction. Not even a light from the caps lock key, nothing.

Tryed "dsl 2", "dsl toram", "dsl failsafe", 3 "fb" modes, and dsl vga=788.

Just tried "dsl vga=normal" and it tells me "Ok, booting the kernel." but thats as far as it gets (which is the furthest I have gotten). Which tells me it could be a video issue. But at this point I have no reaction from the the lappy.

Booting from floppy image gets same results, and my bios wouldn't even consider a boot from a USB device "meh!" it says.

CD is fine, booted on 2 older machines (aptivas). BTW: I wonder when we can boot on a Mac machine.

Thanks for reading
-lzy

That is bad news.

FYI, the boot command for failsafe is:

failsafe

not:

dsl failsafe

Whats even funnier is that I can boot with the redhat install cds, i think I'm gonna 4-mat and install lindows

will try "failsafe"

thanks,
lzy

Hey all,

I'm trying to boot DSL from a cd. The boot goes fine but the GUI graphics are all messed up. I tried changing the resolutions at boot but that just jumbles everything up further. Everything up unitl the GUI loads is fine, after that its messed up. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Ok, I figured it out. Just had to use the framebuffer fb1024x768 mode with the other setup, not Xvesa. Now it works just fine.

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