dsl freeze before install

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: dsl freeze before install
started by: sonyleo

Posted by sonyleo on Oct. 28 2006,16:22

Hello, I have a celeron 366 with 32 mb of ram and a hard disk of 4 gb with a pcchips motherboard.
The problem is when I boot with the cd or with floppy disk, before install dsl freeze.
Exacltly after this:
" Uncompressing linux...OK, booting the kernel.
Welcome to DSL.
Built using knoppix technology.
DSL comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. "
After that it´s freeze.

What is the solution?

PD: Sorry for may bad english.

Posted by mrs peanut on Oct. 29 2006,15:15

which version of dsl did you download? there is one for older computers - syslinux
which is for computers older than about 5 years old. i had to use that one on my old toshiba as the iso linux one wouldnt work.

< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....nux.iso >
(for older pcs)

Posted by mrs peanut on Oct. 29 2006,15:38

actually, the above link isnt the latest version, idont think. i cant find the proper link at the moment. maybe someone else could post the proper link.

Posted by sonyleo on Oct. 29 2006,22:58

I downloaded the 2 version, the normal and the syslinux and is the same. What is the problem?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 29 2006,23:31

If it attempts to boot the kernel, I don't think its a bootloader issue.

Try booting with "dsl failsafe"
See the wiki page on cheatcodes for more options and info.

Posted by sonyleo on Oct. 30 2006,01:02

Thanks but I tried to boot with dsl failsafe and nothing and also tried noacpi or acpi=off and nothing too.

Posted by jls legalize on Oct. 31 2006,10:04

try with this boot parm:
dsl noapic pci=bios acpi=off pnpbios=off nomce noscsi nopcmcia nousb nofirewire

legalize cannabis, etc.

Posted by sonyleo on Oct. 31 2006,20:52

I try this:
dsl vga=normal mem=32M and the others codes and:
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount fs on 01:03"
What is it?
Thanks.