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Posted: June 07 2005,14:01 QUOTE
I'm having a similar problem... except I dont see anything after the kernel boot.

I'm having a little problem with this old Presario 700 (AMD Athlon 4 256MB RAM) I am unable to get DSL working, the live CD boots accordingly, however once I have typed my selection or just pressed enter, I get nothing. A blank screen... ok that qualifies as something. But nevertheless a blank screen. I allowed it to boot for 4 hours and still no reaction. Not even a light from the caps lock key, nothing.

Tryed "dsl 2", "dsl toram", "dsl failsafe", 3 "fb" modes, and dsl vga=788.

Just tried "dsl vga=normal" and it tells me "Ok, booting the kernel." but thats as far as it gets (which is the furthest I have gotten). Which tells me it could be a video issue. But at this point I have no reaction from the the lappy.

Booting from floppy image gets same results, and my bios wouldn't even consider a boot from a USB device "meh!" it says.

CD is fine, booted on 2 older machines (aptivas). BTW: I wonder when we can boot on a Mac machine.

Thanks for reading
-lzy
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Posted: June 07 2005,22:46 QUOTE
That is bad news.

FYI, the boot command for failsafe is:

failsafe

not:

dsl failsafe
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Posted: June 08 2005,04:28 QUOTE
Whats even funnier is that I can boot with the redhat install cds,  i think I'm gonna 4-mat and install lindows

will try "failsafe":D

thanks,
lzy
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Tom
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Posted: June 14 2005,21:20 QUOTE
Hey all,

I'm trying to boot DSL from a cd.  The boot goes fine but the GUI graphics are all messed up.  I tried changing the resolutions at boot but that just jumbles everything up further.  Everything up unitl the GUI loads is fine, after that its messed up.  Any suggestions?

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Posted: June 15 2005,16:58 QUOTE
Ok, I figured it out.  Just had to use the framebuffer fb1024x768 mode with the other setup, not Xvesa.  Now it works just fine.
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