Laptops :: DSL freeze at the begining of the boot.

Hi,

Working every day with my old machine (a Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT)
whit Vector Linux 3.2, I heard about DSL and it seemed to be the perfect
OS for me: minimalist, fast, adapted to older hardware and using my favourite WM.

A soon as possible, I burned a CD (I can forget to boot on a
USB key with my 9 years old laptop) and booted on it.

Unfortunately, It froze at the begining, just after the message
Processor 0 is Mobile Pentium MMX 199 Mhz

I tried the most of the boot options available (failsafe etc...) but that didn't change anything.

I never get this king of problem with the Debian-Based distros I've tried (Such as Debian, Libranet and even Knoppix).

I hope my english was 'readable' and that it doesn't contain too much faults.

Every ideas, propositions, information would be very apreciated, and I can of course give more information about my system if someone need it to, maybe, help me.

Thanks

Mateo

See this thread:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=8947

Try the lowram boot option.

Ya, I am having similar problems. doobit linked the thread I started, but I am interested in seeing your solution. I keep getting an "Enter runlevel:", but no numbers seem to work.

If I get it working, I'll let you know.

Did you try the syslinux version yet?

Brian
AwPhuch

I second that. Try the syslinux version. It works great on my 480CDT except I still have some display issues to sort out. The 480CDT doesn't like the frame buffer settings, but works on the regular vga settings. The problem is that slit and the panel don't show up on the desktop with the regular vga settings, and firefox opens up partially offscreen.

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