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Topic: How to save boot settings, I would like to save the boot settings

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jerome2

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Posted: Aug. 26 2004,03:27

Ok well I am just accostomed to posting on other forums where 100's of people are on at any given moment, no offence

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 26 2004,03:58

What kind of Dell computer do you have?

Does the boot option "vga=normal" help any?

You can try the "xsetup" option in DSL-0.7.3 at boot time,
For example " dsl xsetup vga=normal "
and bypass the automatic xserver startup.

Play with the choices, and if you get a black screen again,
use "ctrl-alt-bksp" to get you back to the shell prompt..
Then type "xsetup.sh" to try other choices..
I hope you find one you like...

73
ke4nt

cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 26 2004,04:40

Try booting with:

dsl xsetup

and choose 640x480x16 as your resolution.

jerome2

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Posted: Aug. 26 2004,06:45

I recently noticed something that i have been overlooking.

Error: Only One Processor Found

I went into the bios and turned off hyper threading. And still got the same error.

I think this is my problem, when the xserver starts I get an error due to some problem involving my processor.

ctl+alt+bksp does not help, I need to turn the computer off and back on.

I noticed this because when I type :
failsafe
I dont get the same error about not detecting multiple processors.

I was playing around with the other boot options, vga=normal dosent seem to help.

I was trying them like this
dsl no{apg}
etc ... Is that the correct format?

Right now my guess is if I can find the option to disable processor detection or something similar that the xserver will start.

thanks

jerome2

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Posted: Aug. 26 2004,10:31

after 3 days of playing with dsl I finally found out what options I need inorder to boot (0.7.3).

I enter this at the blue screen when it asks for a list odf options:

dsl nosmp noagp

Now if I could only figure out how to make this happpen from a hd install everytime I boot I will be able to focus on other things.

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