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Posted: May 23 2008,20:31 QUOTE
Try boot: failsafe

Also post your hardware specs and maybe someone else has the same specs and has solved this and therefore can help.

Edited by roberts on May 23 2008,20:31
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Posted: May 26 2008,20:31 QUOTE
Thanks, but I've already tried this one...

Well, it boots if I specify "dsl xsetup" and "xfbdev" instead of "xvesa" at the menu. (I was sure I had tried it !)
So I began to believe...!
But, here I need your explanations : can't I have it installed on my HD working the SaME?

I tried Tools/Install  and  Tools/Frugal install but it doesn't work !

First after the grub, it freezes at "Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel."  => I can pass it adding "acpi=off"
But then the X really don't want. I am thrown to a shell and even if I type xsetup.sh and choose xfbdev, I got this :

$ startx
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (COnnection reset by peer) on xserver ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

It's all the more frustrating that the live CD works!
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Posted: May 26 2008,21:27 QUOTE
Quote (pseudomino @ May 26 2008,16:31)
Thanks, but I've already tried this one...

Well, it boots if I specify "dsl xsetup" and "xfbdev" instead of "xvesa" at the menu. (I was sure I had tried it !)
So I began to believe...!
But, here I need your explanations : can't I have it installed on my HD working the SaME?

I tried Tools/Install  and  Tools/Frugal install but it doesn't work !

First after the grub, it freezes at "Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel."  => I can pass it adding "acpi=off"
But then the X really don't want. I am thrown to a shell and even if I type xsetup.sh and choose xfbdev, I got this :

$ startx
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (COnnection reset by peer) on xserver ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

It's all the more frustrating that the live CD works!

Try booting "fb800x600", not "dsl fb800x600"
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Posted: May 26 2008,21:35 QUOTE
pseudomino: Please do like Robert said and post your hardware specs.

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Posted: May 26 2008,22:12 QUOTE
yes you're right :

AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Graphic card : Winfast A280 (nvidia GEForce4)
Motherboard : ASUS A7V8X
RAM : 512 MB

(I'll have a fast DSL)

to Chaostic :
With fb800x600 it fails too, unless I choose xfbdev. So I see no advantage since I can have the same in ... 1024x768 by default it seems
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