Other Help Topics :: How to save boot settings

Ok well I am just accostomed to posting on other forums where 100's of people are on at any given moment, no offence

What kind of Dell computer do you have?

Does the boot option "vga=normal" help any?

You can try the "xsetup" option in DSL-0.7.3 at boot time,
For example " dsl xsetup vga=normal "
and bypass the automatic xserver startup.

Play with the choices, and if you get a black screen again,
use "ctrl-alt-bksp" to get you back to the shell prompt..
Then type "xsetup.sh" to try other choices..
I hope you find one you like...

73
ke4nt

Try booting with:

dsl xsetup

and choose 640x480x16 as your resolution.

I recently noticed something that i have been overlooking.

Error: Only One Processor Found

I went into the bios and turned off hyper threading. And still got the same error.

I think this is my problem, when the xserver starts I get an error due to some problem involving my processor.

ctl+alt+bksp does not help, I need to turn the computer off and back on.

I noticed this because when I type :
failsafe
I dont get the same error about not detecting multiple processors.

I was playing around with the other boot options, vga=normal dosent seem to help.

I was trying them like this
dsl no{apg}
etc ... Is that the correct format?

Right now my guess is if I can find the option to disable processor detection or something similar that the xserver will start.

thanks

after 3 days of playing with dsl I finally found out what options I need inorder to boot (0.7.3).

I enter this at the blue screen when it asks for a list odf options:

dsl nosmp noagp

Now if I could only figure out how to make this happpen from a hd install everytime I boot I will be able to focus on other things.

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