Help! Can't boot DSLForum: User Feedback Topic: Help! Can't boot DSL started by: jjuuaannmmaa Posted by jjuuaannmmaa on July 07 2006,06:45
Hello!I have this problem: When I'm on the screen where DSL gives you the option to press enter and continue charging or press F2 or F3, I press enter at boot: line in order to continue, but after that the screen goes black and nothing happens. Any idea what this could be? By the way my computer is and AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.66Ghz), with 256Mb RAM. Thank You! Posted by kerry on July 07 2006,08:18
try typing> dsl vga=normal and then hit enter
Posted by jjuuaannmmaa on July 07 2006,12:42
Already tried that, but it still doesn't work...
Posted by kerry on July 07 2006,19:07
perhaps try downloading a new iso and burn at slow speed(4x is reccommended) using a cdr. what kind of vid card?
Posted by brianw on July 08 2006,03:56
start with booting:dsl base 2 nohwsetup nofstab and see if that works. I think that is pretty much the minimum you can boot with. You could also try to add noagp, nofirewire, nousb, noscsi, etc... just to start then leave them out if it boots until you isolate an area that causes the problem. It may be video realted or it may be hardware detection related. Also, what version of dsl are you trying? This is important because a couple of versions use a newer kernel and atleast one version uses unionfs at default. Let us know any further info you can so we, as a community, can help solve this. Posted by newby on July 08 2006,15:48
If a spec of dust or fingerprint is on a raw CDR it will effect the writing of data. Likewise, reading data back from a good CD can be effected by a speck of dust, fingerprint, scratch, et cetera. I just saw this happen to someone yesterday. If not, look at the other issues. Posted by jjuuaannmmaa on July 08 2006,19:36
It's not an iso image problem, I've downloaded it twice and both times burned it with slow speed, so I think that's not the problem.I'll try brianw's posible solution. My video card is and GeForce2 As soon as I try, I'll post to tell you how it went. Thanks a lot! See you! P.S.: I forgot, I'm using 3.0.1 version Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 09 2006,00:36
This may be a problem with your monitor.. (i.e. are you using a laptop?)You may be able to get something by using the framebuffer (fb) modes. Posted by jjuuaannmmaa on July 10 2006,01:58
Well I've solved the problem!It just worked by booting with the line dsl nolapic I used this because I was shure this was a problem with SMP, so no local apic was a possible solution, and it worked perfectly! Thank you all! And I hope this can help anyone with the same problem! Bye! juanma.- |