booting problem in DSL

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: booting problem in DSL
started by: manduck

Posted by manduck on Jan. 28 2005,16:24

I`ve just created a bootable disk of DSL [50 mb] but when i booted it shows an image and when i hit entered a black blank screen appears and after this nothing happened please help...my system configuration is 667 MHz [SiS 630]/256 MB ram...any help appreciated...

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 28 2005,17:14

Boot with this command:

dsl vga=normal xsetup

Posted by manduck on Jan. 30 2005,18:47

cbagger01 previous screen has gone but now a text uncompressing linux..., OK, booting kernel. is shown, now tell what to do....help....:(

Posted by wolly on Jan. 31 2005,05:53

hi
It´s booting on my 100mhz Toshiba satellite 110cs , but.....
it comes
Done.
Starting init process.
<6>freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
INIT: No inittab file found

Enter runlevel: _

from 1 to 5 always comes
INIT: entering runlevel: 5
INIT: no more processes left in die runlevel
_

What should I do

Pleeeeeeeeease help meeeeeeee

thx

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 31 2005,06:56

Hmm...

Maybe

dsl vga=normal xsetup mem=16M

with a capital "M" for memory?

It works on some other Toshiba Laptops.

Posted by brett on Feb. 02 2005,01:27

im getting the same problem

main screen if i push enter just a black screen

if i boot with that command i get

uncompressing linux...... ok, booting the kernal.

and the system hangs

im using a cd boot on a compaq presario 700 series

any ideas

Cheers

Posted by detpenguin on Mar. 10 2005,21:11

same problem as brett here...except on an HP 705. 512mb ram, 2.9gh celeron. it gets to the "compressing linux, ok, booting kernal" and just hangs...i have to push the power button to reboot. i've gotten this far, so i know it's probably something silly and obvious, but i can't figure it out...anyone?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Mar. 10 2005,21:28

It works on my toshiba 110cs laptop,
but I have it maxed out at 40MB's ram.

I still needed a large swap to do much with it. ( 80MB's )

I installed Xfree86 on it, and now I get 8 bit color at 800x600.
vesa support on it stinks, with only 4 bit working.
It just chokes completely on FB ( fb800x600 )

But it works nicely now.. just took a bit of tweaking..
Surfing w/dillo, IRC, ssh, etc, all work nicely.

73
ke4nt

Posted by adssse on Mar. 10 2005,21:49

I am having trouble booting the new 1.0rc1 version. I have an AMD K6 233mhz with 128mb ram. I have 0.9.3 installed on my hard drive but downloaded the new version and booted from it but the first time it would not boot, going extremely slow, getting stuck in a cloop and asking me for a password which wasnt either of the passwords for my hd install. Sorry I did not write down the message before I tried again. On the second try it again went extremely slow to the point where I finally just powered down before it finished. 0.9.3 still boots fine on this computer and the 1.0rc1 cd boots fine on my old laptop. Does anyone have an idea of how I can boot 1.0rc1?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Mar. 10 2005,22:45

for a test, see if you can boot the liveCD with this command
" dsl norestore " or " dsl base norestore "

This will make it bypass looking for files and backups,
that it may be finding normally, and getting confused.

Are you running the 0.9.3 HDinstall with a different username
than the default user DSL ?

73
ke4nt

Posted by detpenguin on Mar. 10 2005,23:03

bit of an update. i downloaded and burned the 0.9.1 iso and get the same problem. it just freezes at "booting the kernel" i've tried every combination i could think of...base, with and without hardware, failsafe...it never gets past booting the kernel. it's like it suddenly doesn't see my cdrom?

Posted by adssse on Mar. 11 2005,02:19

ke4nt1, thanks for replying. I tried the boot commands you suggested but 1.0rc1 is still booting extremely slow. It seems as though it boots at normal speed until it gets to the point

setting paths...

After it gets to that point it really starts to crawl. I am not sure if this information helps. You mentioned that it might be getting confused? Should I format the hd and see if it boots normally with a clean hd? To answer your question I am using the default username that 0.9.3 gave me when I installed it to my hd. Thank you for your help and I am open to more suggestions.

Posted by adssse on Mar. 12 2005,20:48

anyone have any ideas that I can try?

Posted by Ezekiel on June 05 2005,06:43

I'm having a similar problem here,

System:
Custom, Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 1GB of ram ...

Problem: After "runlevel: 5" I get a blank screen and have to do a hard reboot.

Has anyone figgured out why this happens? is it because of the grafix card ... I shouldn't have any problems (Matrox G550) ... I'll try it with different boot options (again *sigh*) if anyone figgures this out let us know.

Posted by aveline on June 05 2005,07:05

Only options I can think to try are:

dsl noapic acpi=off noapm nomce noddc ram=XXXM vga=normal

or

expert *which prompts for everything iirc*

avey

Posted by cbagger01 on June 05 2005,17:26

If you see the little Penguin in the upper left corner and can read all boot messages until you start up xwindows, then your card does support the framebuffer mode.

So you can try booting with:

fb1024x768 xsetup

at the boot prompt, or maybe:

fb800x600 xsetup

and then choose the xfbdev server

Posted by Ezekiel on June 05 2005,17:48

heh ... when I just tried it on my laptop .... I get to the processor detection and then it just stops ... it doesn't get any farther than that even with failsafe and fb800x600 xsetup ... but I'll try what you said on this desktop.

Oh, and I do see that puinguin ... so I think that your sugestion may work

Posted by cbagger01 on June 05 2005,18:18

If you can't get past the processor detection even with failsafe then you are in trouble if you use it with your laptop.

Depending on your laptop age, you might be able to get it to work with:

failsafe mem=16M

with "mem" in lowercase and "16M" in uppercase.

Posted by Ezekiel on June 05 2005,18:50

Allright ... I got it to boot on my desktop. I had to have it boot to a plain desktop and then load the icons manually ... *shrug* ... but I can't connect to the net (I use wireless linksys with a lynksys router). Any Ideas? Oh and I'm kinda new to Linux in general ... How would I mount my USB device? and then where would it be located afterwords? thanks.

EDIT: it gets past the processor detection and then goes all the way to the authority files .... then I get a prompt that does nothing. ... it quite literally does nothing ... you can type whatever you want and it just doesn't do anything ... no response or actual "prompt" thingy I don't know what it's called in dos the "c:\\"(it doesn't have that) thinngy... weird.... I don't know ... I'm rambling sorry.

Posted by cbagger01 on June 06 2005,02:23

For mounting a USB device:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....51;st=0 >

For your laptop, see if typing in:

failsafe

at the boot prompt works.