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Topic: booting problem in DSL, DSL not booting

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manduck

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Posted: Jan. 28 2005,16:24

I`ve just created a bootable disk of DSL [50 mb] but when i booted it shows an image and when i hit entered a black blank screen appears and after this nothing happened please help...my system configuration is 667 MHz [SiS 630]/256 MB ram...any help appreciated...

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 28 2005,17:14

Boot with this command:

dsl vga=normal xsetup

manduck

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Posted: Jan. 30 2005,18:47

cbagger01 previous screen has gone but now a text uncompressing linux..., OK, booting kernel. is shown, now tell what to do....help....:(

wolly

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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,05:53

hi
It´s booting on my 100mhz Toshiba satellite 110cs , but.....
it comes
Done.
Starting init process.
<6>freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
INIT: No inittab file found

Enter runlevel: _

from 1 to 5 always comes
INIT: entering runlevel: 5
INIT: no more processes left in die runlevel
_

What should I do