Other Help Topics :: booting problem in DSL

If you see the little Penguin in the upper left corner and can read all boot messages until you start up xwindows, then your card does support the framebuffer mode.

So you can try booting with:

fb1024x768 xsetup

at the boot prompt, or maybe:

fb800x600 xsetup

and then choose the xfbdev server

heh ... when I just tried it on my laptop .... I get to the processor detection and then it just stops ... it doesn't get any farther than that even with failsafe and fb800x600 xsetup ... but I'll try what you said on this desktop.

Oh, and I do see that puinguin ... so I think that your sugestion may work

If you can't get past the processor detection even with failsafe then you are in trouble if you use it with your laptop.

Depending on your laptop age, you might be able to get it to work with:

failsafe mem=16M

with "mem" in lowercase and "16M" in uppercase.

Allright ... I got it to boot on my desktop. I had to have it boot to a plain desktop and then load the icons manually ... *shrug* ... but I can't connect to the net (I use wireless linksys with a lynksys router). Any Ideas? Oh and I'm kinda new to Linux in general ... How would I mount my USB device? and then where would it be located afterwords? thanks.

EDIT: it gets past the processor detection and then goes all the way to the authority files .... then I get a prompt that does nothing. ... it quite literally does nothing ... you can type whatever you want and it just doesn't do anything ... no response or actual "prompt" thingy I don't know what it's called in dos the "c:\\"(it doesn't have that) thinngy... weird.... I don't know ... I'm rambling sorry.

For mounting a USB device:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....51;st=0

For your laptop, see if typing in:

failsafe

at the boot prompt works.

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