problem in booting (on Toshiba Satellite)Forum: Laptops Topic: problem in booting (on Toshiba Satellite) started by: abitofmp3 Posted by abitofmp3 on April 14 2006,11:25
Hello to everybody!I have a problem with the cd booting of dsl on my laptop Toshiba Satellite 1800-314. The process starts correctly but everything stops after this line: SCANNING FOR HARDDISK AND CREATING /ETC/FSTAB. . . I tryed to boot with some of the cheatcodes, in particolar with failsafe, but the problemi is still there. It doesn't work after that command line. I can only use knoppix, for example, booting it in filesafe, but with dsl I can't. Have you any suggestion? Thank you a. Posted by doobit on April 14 2006,12:05
Try using the syslinux version of DSL
Posted by abitofmp3 on April 14 2006,12:17
Where can I download dsl-syslinux.iso ?I can't find it. Thank you a. Posted by abitofmp3 on April 14 2006,12:25
I found this:< ftp://ibiblio.org/pub....nux.iso > Is it the correct version? Thanx a. Posted by doobit on April 14 2006,13:53
yes!
Posted by abitofmp3 on April 14 2006,17:57
Neither syslinux works :-(((What can I do? Thx a. Posted by abitofmp3 on April 14 2006,17:59
Neither syslinux works :-(((Thx a. Posted by doobit on April 14 2006,18:26
When it's creating /ect/fstab it is in the process of locating hardware and enabling it. It's possible you have a hardware problem.
Posted by abitofmp3 on April 14 2006,18:55
It would be very strange: using knoppix (live) in failsafe everything goes in the right way!I don't think it is a hardware problem... Thx a. Posted by doobit on April 15 2006,13:40
Why do you need to use failsafe if you don't have a hardware problem?
Posted by abitofmp3 on April 15 2006,15:03
Because with knoppix for example is the only way to boot the operative system, but I don't know way :-(Thx a. Posted by doobit on April 15 2006,19:00
If failsafe is the only way you can boot knoppix,that suggests you have a hardware problem. Knoppix works in a very similar way to DSL in the way it detects hardware. If it needs failsafe to boot, then something is wrong in the way things are setup and you need to do some troubleshooting to find it (trial and error probably). I'd start by looking at your memory. How much do you have, is it shared with video, do you have a swap partition, etc.?
Posted by humpty on April 16 2006,23:36
Are there any settings in your bios that might be relevent to the cd drive ?
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