Cant boot from livecd

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Cant boot from livecd
started by: Nokkis

Posted by Nokkis on Oct. 26 2006,08:16

The problem is that DSL doesn't boot, it just freezes to the screen with the Tux pictures referring to the number of processors. (I have dualcore, so it's 2) I tried booting with several boot options, "dsl dma toram" as I usually do, then without any options at all, and finally "dsl failsafe lowram" They all just froze on the same screen. Do you know what I could do?

Some specs:

Intel Pentium D Dualcore 2,66Ghz
Club 3d nVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 26 2006,14:01

nforce motherboard?

Just some guessing: try noacpi acpi=off noapm apm=off nosmp noapic
No idea if all of them are parsed by DSL.

Posted by Nokkis on Oct. 27 2006,18:49

No, my motherboard is a Gigabyte one.
The commands didn't work, DSL freezed into the same screen. Any ideas, anyone?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 27 2006,23:26

I didn't mean the motherboard manufacturer - I was referring to the chipsets.

Did you happen to get any other distros on that machine?

Posted by Nokkis on Oct. 29 2006,14:24

My chipset is SiS 649DX, so seemingly no problem there.
Knoppix runs just fine

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 30 2006,00:09

Hm, I guess you could try other boot codes that are listed in F2/F3/wiki.

Actually, did you double check if your media isn't corrupted (or copied correctly)?

Posted by Nokkis on Oct. 30 2006,06:15

Yeah, I downloaded a new ISO, and it worked on another computer. Guess I'll try the cheatcodes then.

Posted by joekabal on Nov. 22 2006,00:39

having the same problem...knoppix 5.0 works fine on it...nvidia chipset...I also have a single core/ nvidia chipset...no sound or internet...both are onboard....once again knoppix 5.0 works fine on it...would like to see dsl work on them...