DSL freeze at the begining of the boot.
Forum: Laptops
Topic: DSL freeze at the begining of the boot.
started by: mateo
Posted by mateo on Oct. 03 2005,19:52
Hi,Working every day with my old machine (a Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT)
whit Vector Linux 3.2, I heard about DSL and it seemed to be the perfect
OS for me: minimalist, fast, adapted to older hardware and using my favourite WM.
A soon as possible, I burned a CD (I can forget to boot on a
USB key with my 9 years old laptop) and booted on it.
Unfortunately, It froze at the begining, just after the message
Processor 0 is Mobile Pentium MMX 199 Mhz
I tried the most of the boot options available (failsafe etc...) but that didn't change anything.
I never get this king of problem with the Debian-Based distros I've tried (Such as Debian, Libranet and even Knoppix).
I hope my english was 'readable' and that it doesn't contain too much faults.
Every ideas, propositions, information would be very apreciated, and I can of course give more information about my system if someone need it to, maybe, help me.
Thanks
Mateo
Posted by doobit on Oct. 05 2005,12:51
See this thread:< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=8947 >
Try the lowram boot option.
Posted by Goober on Oct. 06 2005,02:44
Ya, I am having similar problems. doobit linked the thread I started, but I am interested in seeing your solution. I keep getting an "Enter runlevel:", but no numbers seem to work.If I get it working, I'll let you know.
Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 06 2005,15:43
Did you try the syslinux version yet?Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by doobit on Oct. 06 2005,16:01
I second that. Try the syslinux version. It works great on my 480CDT except I still have some display issues to sort out. The 480CDT doesn't like the frame buffer settings, but works on the regular vga settings. The problem is that slit and the panel don't show up on the desktop with the regular vga settings, and firefox opens up partially offscreen.
Posted by mateo on Oct. 09 2005,07:42
I still didn't tried the syslinux version, I will do it as soon as possible and let you now what happened.About the lowram boot option, I tried it and it didn't change anything.
A great thank for all your responses
Posted by doobit on Oct. 16 2005,01:31
I have done a frugal install on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 480 CDT with 64MB RAM and it works great! I have a wireless connection using an ATT PCMCIA wireless G card. I had to set up the BIOS a little to make sure that the boot order was correct to boot from the CD and that the highest possible LCD resolution and color setting was available and not stretched. I also set the PCMCIA setting to 16bit, not auto. Then I used parted to squeeze the FAT32 partition down to half the hard drive. The used cfdisk to make three logical partions which I formatted as ext2fs and swap Now this thing rocks! 