Help a Noob with booting pleaseForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Help a Noob with booting please started by: earthbound Posted by earthbound on Oct. 20 2006,01:08
Ok here's my problem...I burned the regular dsl<whatever>.iso and it starts perfectly. I get to the boot screen (press F2 or F3 for additional boot options.. that place) and no matter what cheat i use the booting stops and my computer freezes in the same place everytime. ------------------- *junk* *junk* *junk* INIT: Version 2.78 Knoppix booting Running Linux Kernal 2.4.26 Processor 0 is M II 3x Core/Bus Clock 200MHZ ------------------- It always stops after the CPU check. I've left it there for a couple hours just to make sure it wasn't just computing and nothing happens. My comp just freezes up. I can post my system specs if needed just thought there might be similar cases (although my searches have not been fruitful in the forums), or I am just too noobish to know what's happening. *EDIT* And i did check md5sum... check was fine. Also, it does this on sys version too. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 20 2006,03:32
Did you try failsafe lowram?Another forum user did use a similar cpu... and system specs could help :P Posted by earthbound on Oct. 20 2006,04:45
Failsafe does the same as above, but lowram works up to a certain point. It gets past the CPU check and all that jazz.I select Xvesa server, ps2 mouse, 800x600 rez, and then after not choosing my own DPI and selecting US keyboard i get a scrolling screen of what looks like hexadecimal code (eg. [<c48172dq>] ) Then after a few seconds i get an error: ---------------- Unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address c4000000 printing eip: c0108bf8 *pde= 00000000 --------------- M II 3x Core/Bus Clock 200MHZ with 64mb of ram and a 2gig HD. Anyways, I was hoping to get this computer operational but as of right now it is really starting to get on my nerves!! Windows 98 used to run on it... so i would figure that something as small as DSL would. So is my project hopeless? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 20 2006,13:08
Well I meant to use both, like booting with "dsl lowram failsafe"Some other options to consider: noapm noapci apci=off (power options) There's a similar error result in < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2491 > You could also see if you can get into the command line, boot with "2" (runlevel 2) Your project is hopeless only if you give up now ;p |