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Posted: July 27 2005,00:36 QUOTE
Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could give me some advise. I have a toshiba 430cdt laptop, pentium 120Mhz with 16mb ram. The laptop can't boot off the cd, so I use the boot disk with the cd. The boot disk works fine, but when the cd tries to load DSL it encounters a seg fault and asks for the runlevel. Anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.
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Posted: July 27 2005,02:53 QUOTE
Try booting with this command:

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dsl 1 vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce mem=16M


at the boot prompt. Make sure that "mem" is lowercase and the "M" at the end of the 16M is uppercase. These commands should be typed all on the same line.
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Posted: July 27 2005,20:28 QUOTE
thanks for your help. That got the boot process going. What is just because the hardware was old?
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Posted: July 27 2005,21:11 QUOTE
I seem to have another problem now. when I try to start x, I get the following error:
xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "//.xinitrc" in path.

I using xfbdev, us keyboard, ps2 mouse

Thanks again
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Posted: July 28 2005,01:12 QUOTE
There is some issue with 430's that require that the user tell the kernel how much RAM you have in order to boot up.

Other Toshiba users have used this command to get up and running.

The rest of the commands are just used to reduce memory usage because at first you only have 16MB of RAM and no swap space.

I dunno about the latest error.  Maybe some of the other 430 users here can help.
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