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durbnpoisn Offline

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Posted: Jan. 15 2005,23:52

Yep! That did the trick. On both counts, in fact! Now I can turn on the laptop with the boot disc inside, and walk away without typing a thing. When I come back, DSL is up and working as normal.

Excellent!!

phlapjack77
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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,00:07

glad it worked - *whew*

btw, if you ever do need to specify boot parameters at startup, hold down <shift> or <alt> and you'll hit the boot prompt.

i found all this on the syslinux website...has all kinds of cool stuff about booting

http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php

Phillip

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Posted: Jan. 18 2005,23:24

New question:
I got the boot up working automatically, but there is one difference. When I boot up by typing in the command line, the video mode switches in a manner that I can still see the text as the system is loading and unloading (whatever video mode that is). But, now, when booting automatically using the suggestion from the other day, the video mode switches to something unsupported by the laptop until X starts. Once X starts, it's in 800x600 and appears to work just fine.

It's just the boot up and shutdown that I can't see.

And, sometimes there is important information on those screens.

Any ideas.?