help!! i cant boot

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: help!! i cant boot
started by: loscar141

Posted by loscar141 on July 30 2005,22:21

hello im new to linux all together. i made a boot cd and tested it on a old pc and it works great, but when i try to boot it on my new pc everything seem fine untill it starts to uncompress or whatever it does and then the screen just goes blank and nothing happens

i have a hp pavilion intel celeron 2.93 megaherts 512 mb ram
and nvidia geforce mx 4000. any help would be great

Posted by cbagger01 on July 30 2005,22:49

Try this boot command:

fb800x600

NOT

dsl fb800x600

Then choose the "xfbdev" server if prompted.

Posted by loscar141 on July 31 2005,07:39

thank but its wasnt the problem i should of check the other topics first. i put in "dsl acpi=off" and it worked

Posted by davey on Aug. 17 2005,18:18

I can't boot either, but I think it's a problem with the CD burn. I'll download it and burn again, but I got to wondering: what's the difference between the dsl.iso and dslsyslinux.iso? (And yup, I did search the forums and found nothing).

I guess what I'm wondering is, is the syslinux one an alternative, or some kind of addon?

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 18 2005,13:33

It's there in the search...you may need to search farther back than the default, and use "AND" if you're seaching for multiple words.
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....76;st=4 >

Posted by Hapflu on Aug. 22 2005,15:54

Hi,
I cant boot either. I always get only a black screen after the question to color-depth.
I tried the two previously mentioned boot-commands with no success.
I have tried DSL 0.9.0.1 and DSL 1.4 with no success.

I have an ATI-Rage grafics-card. Is there an incompatibility ?
So far I could boot every KNOPPIX from 3.3 to 3.9.
Why not DSL ?

kind thanks for a reply and regards

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 22 2005,17:18

Rage should work fine.

Does this work?

dsl vga=normal

and the chooce Xvesa server and choose 800 x 600 x 16 bit

Posted by Hapflu on Aug. 24 2005,15:45

Unfortunately, this does not work either. After selecting the keymap, only a black screen follows with the USB-Stick blinking normally.

"failsafe" produces the same result.

thank You and kind regards

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 24 2005,16:37

Hmm..

How about:

dsl vga=769 xsetup

and then choose the xfbdev server when prompted?

Posted by Hapflu on Aug. 25 2005,14:49

Success !

The last recommendation produced at least "getting started" in dark blue letters on black background, but no living desktop.

The success came with

dsl vga=791 xsetup
and
xfbdev server.

many thanks for the help. now Ican get started with DSL.