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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,16:18 QUOTE

Exactly what kind of problems are you having when booting?

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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,17:37 QUOTE

I get to the boot: prompt in isolinux. It loads linux24 and minirt24.gz but then I get a black screen - no baby tux.

I have installed DSL ver. 1.5 embedded on a USB key and it boots fine. The USB key has syslinux ver. 3.06.
I have checked the md5 sum of my downloaded .iso image and it is also fine.

It seems that the problem is related to the ver. 1.5 .iso image.


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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,17:54 QUOTE

There is a syslinux iso. Did you use that one for 1.4?

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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,18:15 QUOTE

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I have checked the md5 sum of my downloaded .iso image and it is also fine.


Bad burn from good .iso file ??

Burn speed too high ??
( some drives are better at reading HighSpeed burns than others )

Try the option "dsl vga=normal" at boottime ??

Let us know..

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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,22:58 QUOTE

I hope that I have ruled out the possibility of a bad burn: I burned three copies - all of them can boot on a ThinkPad T4x.

If I try to boot with dsl vga=normal I get:

"Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
and a blinking cursor under the "U" in Uncompressing.
Then nothing.


Still puzzeled but thankfull for this release
Multitudes

P.S.
Did a little hacking: Switched modular drives etc. No effect.
Swung a black rooster three times widdershins above the docking station. No effect.
Enabled the HD in the BIOS and *that* did the trick. :laugh:
The ThinkPad T2x BIOS needs to have the HD enabled (if it is installed) in order to be able to boot properly.
Sorry to have caused doubts about syslinux ...
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