Booting on laptop failed

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Booting on laptop failed
started by: mob

Posted by mob on Aug. 10 2007,16:16

Hello there. I looked at the embedded version of DSL a few weeks ago and it was first linux experience. I burned a live CD afterwards and I tried to boot from it on my Toshiba laptop, but it stops every time at this message
PCMCIA found starting cardmgr
It simply stops, no error message, nothing at all. Meanwhile I have installed another linux distro and it works ok, but I would like to have the DSL working from a CD or an USB drive. What could be the problem?

Posted by curaga on Aug. 10 2007,17:47

If it is an old laptop, did you burn the cd too fast?

Or try booting with "dsl nopcmcia" or "dsl failsafe"?

Posted by mob on Aug. 10 2007,19:49

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If it is an old laptop, did you burn the cd too fast?

Or try booting with "dsl nopcmcia" or "dsl failsafe"?

It is a Toshiba laptop, a pretty good one (the one I burned the CD with). I'll try what you propose. Thanks.

Posted by mob on Aug. 14 2007,15:14

I tried both failsafe and nopcmcia and it's not working on my computer. The same problem with the new release 4.01m it't stopping at the same message pcmcia foundm starting cardmgr.

Posted by curaga on Aug. 14 2007,15:49

You sure you typed them right? Because if you typed "dsl nopcmcia" it will show "Skipping pcmcia check as requested" instead of pcmcia found..

Posted by mob on Aug. 14 2007,18:57

That message appears only when I try to boot without any special command. On the "dsl nopcmcia" It tells me something like "no such command" and I wrote it right, I tried several times. On the "dsl failsafe" it goes on for a while and it stops again ,I don't remember the exact message right now.

Posted by curaga on Aug. 14 2007,19:08

it's not supposed to be "dsl failsafe" but only "failsafe"..

Posted by mob on Aug. 15 2007,13:23

I tried again, on DSL 3.4, after seeing the first DSL screen, after "boot :", with nopcmcia and the result was "Could not find kernel image:pcmcia" After that it continued loading the default settings and it blocked as usual. On failsafe it stopped at this message ACPI-0286 Error *** No installed handler for fix event [00000000]

Yesterday I haven't used the command "dsl failsafe", I pressed F2 from the initial menu in DSL 4.01 and "dsl" just appeared automatically before any command I wanted to give.

Anyway, I have already installed another linux release and it is working fine. I wanted to use DSL because that's the way I discovered linux, by the embedded solution

Posted by mr sparks on Aug. 15 2007,23:45

An older Toshiba I tried was a bit flaky ,
could it be tried without the PCMCIA cards to see if it progresses any further ?

Then go back and check any messages.

My antique would work 1 in 3 times and needed the batteries removed to turn it off when it failed ! ( But not that relevant as was using Live CD )