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Topic: DSL Not starting any which way, Cannot start DSL

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Sparkfist

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Posted: Nov. 11 2006,00:58

Well I'm having a simalar problem to this, so I'm going to post it here.

I'm looking to install DSL 3.0.1 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430cdt. The specs are 48MB ram, 2.2GB hard drive and it only boots via hard disk or floppy. The problem I'm running into is that when ever I try to boot DSL I get a "boot fail" error after selecting an option. I've choicen from the default, lowram, and install.

Anything that might be interfering with the boot process?

Ramik

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Posted: Nov. 11 2006,07:36

Sparkfist:
You don't need lowram since my 32mb PC doesn't...
Its probably a kernel module acting up, that tends to happen with laptop.
But since I just noticed this (I see they ignored you :-) ):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=128840
I decided to look up further and I found this on your specific laptop so it might be worth something:
http://www.freakazoid.org/reference/tosh/

Maybe most importantly this:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-1-8643-15.html

So by the last one it might be worth trying a different version of DSL...