DaCuBaN
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Posted: Oct. 15 2004,06:55 |
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| Quote | | Where in "syslinux.cfg" do I add "mem=16M" |
if you open it up in your favourite editor, you'll see it's broken into sections named after what you hit into the boot prompt - eg fb800x600, failsafe, that kind of thing. You'll notice that at the bottom there is a BLANK entry called USERDEF - simply fill in the necessary details/switches, boot from the floppy and at the boot prompt type userdef
To get this laptop booting I needed to start with vga=788 and mem=16M, eg:
| Quote | LABEL userdef
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND ramdisk_size=2304 init=/etc/init lang=uk vga=788 mem=16M noapic nousb nopcmcia nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=miniroot.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix |
The settings may vary, but this is what I required to boot up. In the case of the ramdisk, I found anything above an 8Mb disk would cause the machine to have a similar 'segmentation' error, so I've managed to trim it down to 2304k, but any smaller and you'll have trouble. You'll most likely have to 'play' with these settings to get it working for your machine.
Google for kernel switches to get a full list of what you can do.
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I've tried copying /knoppix/ across from another bootfloppy distro (This is how I first ran dsl), and when I rebooted from the floppy it picked up the files on the disk and booted without a problem.
Suffice to say, it's not ideal 
