DSL Hangs on boot

Forum: Laptops
Topic: DSL Hangs on boot
started by: denurb

Posted by denurb on Dec. 21 2004,17:04

Hey I have an old toshiba 480 CDT with 32MB RAM and 233MHz processor, 2MB Graphics.
I was trying to test boot DSL from CD, prior to installing onto HD. Works fine until it states:
'Processor 0 is Mobile Pentium MMX 233MHz'
it then hangs.
I have tried booting 'dsl vga=normal' and 'dsl xsetup', but it hangs at the same place.
Any suggestions?

[EDIT]Sorry I am using latest version (0.9.1)

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 21 2004,17:38

Try:

dsl mem=32M

or

dsl mem=16M

Make sure that your "M" at the end is uppercase (IE: a capital letter)

Posted by denurb on Dec. 21 2004,17:46

no such luck, but thanks, it still hangs in the same place

Posted by Martin on Dec. 21 2004,22:56

I tried this too, but my Toshiba Tecra 8000 just hangs after:
'Processor 0 is Prentium II (Deschutes) 299MHz, 512 KB Cache'

Any ideas?

Posted by crazyb8ss on Jan. 01 2005,07:44

hangs on my Portege 3440CT pIII

Posted by zenofjazz on Jan. 05 2005,18:47

The magic word is "failsafe".. a failsafe boot will detect enough hardware to get the cdrom loaded, and X running, then you can move the install to the hard disk. it seems to run fine, for me, on a pair of toshiba satellite 330CDSs I got for xmas.

Posted by Niko on Jan. 08 2005,13:52

I have the same problem with my tecra 8000.

For me following cheatcodes are working:
"failsafe" and "dsl nopcmcia"
Then the disk is booting, but without pcmcia I have no access to my networkcard.

Well, is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance!
Niko

Posted by neo_trio on Jan. 26 2005,19:52

Me too, Tobisha Satellite Pro 430CDS.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 27 2005,10:51

Try adding "pci=biosirq" to your boot command.

Posted by Someone on Feb. 06 2005,12:33

I have Packard Bell Easynote, and I've tried:
"dsl failsafe 2 pci=biosirq vga=normal"

and every other, but still doesn't boot(newest version), some older versions boot correctly..