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Posted: Dec. 28 2004,14:35 QUOTE
Hi all

I want to buy an Fujitsu [EDIT!!!] Siemens Amilo L 7300 laptop (el cheapo bottom-of-the-range laptop). I took a dsl 0.8.1.1 cd in to the store - the bootup got to the penguin OK but after hitting return there was an empty screen - nothing.

I'm assuming this is one of those (display??) issues where particular code(s) have to be entered at boot - but which should I try?

Anyone else tried dsl on a late model Amilo? I guess I'd also have problems booting Knoppix if dsl stalls.

Processor is a Celeron M 340 1.5 GHz. :O

EDIT: Doom4 has had 0.8.2 running via USB boot on an Amilo M 7400 but that's a Centrino.

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Posted: Dec. 28 2004,18:09 QUOTE
PS:  I've tried the following boot options so far:

1. dsl noapic noapm noscsi nopcmcia
(no change)

2. dsl vga=normal
This gets an extra two lines, something about decompressing and then 'OK, booting linux kernel'.  Then stalls.

3. dsl 2
(no change - won't boot further).

Wondering if there isn't something wrong with the dsl cd?

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,15:15 QUOTE
Today I went back and tried again with dsl 0.9.0.1 and also with Knoppix-3.2-MiB-11b.

Same as before unfortunately - no go at all, zilch, zero. Failsafe didn't work either.

Situation terminal?

Unless anyone has a suggestion, I'll forget this laptop (and perhaps similar Celeron M Amilos) - a dead loss as far as dsl/knoppix goes?

A pity since it's not bad value, although Acer 1362WLMi (if it can be found in Europe that is - sold out where I am) is better value again, assuming that it will boot linux.

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,17:09 QUOTE
I seem to be having this discussion entirely with myself, however I suppose this is the holiday season...

Ploughing on regardless ...

I don't suppose this is a syslinux thingummy issue, is it?

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Posted: Dec. 30 2004,05:51 QUOTE
If vga=normal and all of the failsafe stuff does not work then you are probably out-of-luck for that machine.

You can try searching the Internet for generic information about that model of laptop and "Linux" or more speficially "knoppix" and hope for a magic bullet solution.

Good Luck.
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