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Topic: Toshiba Tecra 500 cdt, Live CD boot problem

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Nathan Friend Offline

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Posted: Mar. 19 2006,16:17

Hi all,
Using either iso I get seg faults at the start of the boot process.

This old P133 laptop only has 16mb of ram, so I guess that's causing a problem...

boot: lowram gets a bit further

I get INIT: No inittab file found
Enter runlevel:

Any ideas welcome.

Nathan.

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 20 2006,06:19

Try typing in:

lowram mem=16M

at the boot prompt.

"mem" is lowercase, and the "M" at the end is uppercase.

Nathan Friend Offline

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Posted: Mar. 20 2006,21:09

That did the trick. Thank you!

Nathan.

Nathan Friend Offline

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,13:47

Once DSL loaded from the live CD, I went to tools > install to HD
Script went OK and reported no errors, however on reboot I'm back to the segfault.

Is there a place (grub conf maybe) I need to tell DSL to boot using the lowram mem=16M option.