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Topic: Can not boot DSL to IBM Thinkpad 380XD, New to Linux & DSL Please Help< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Mar. 14 2006,02:00 QUOTE

I've had a 308XD for many years and have found that the CD doesn't like CD-RW's.  It wont recognise them! or the one's I've tried so I don't even try anymore.  CD-R are normally OK.  Have just started running dsl v2 and it works incredibly well. Even picked up the PCMCIA Xircom modem and ran it flawlessly. The sound needed a modprobe "sudo modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5" (I found this on another page).
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Posted: July 16 2006,19:06 QUOTE

That's because it is an old laptop. I know the problem because I have a 380D. The problem is that the disk is too 'dark'. If you look at the data side of a CD-R and a CD-RW, you can see the CD-RW is darker. Older drives can't read them. I chose to just stick my DSL 1.5 CD-R in, and frugal install with a file I downloaded off the net. The problem was I have 32MB of RAM and 50MB ISO. Doesn't fit in RAM. I set up an extra partition on the hard disk to hold the ISO, then frugal installed it to hda1, then resized the home, opt and backup/restore partition to swallow up my temporary ISO partition.
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Posted: July 18 2006,21:00 QUOTE

I had a desktop that would not boot from cd and I had set it correctly in the bios and I knew it was good as it would boot in other computers and after much hunting I discovered there was a security setting in the bios that stopped the boot process. Even though I had set it boot from cd first there was a seperate setting buried in the security tab of the bios that would stop it. I reset to enable in security and good to go. Take a look and see.
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