User Feedback :: Boot and Shut Down Problems

This is a great Distro. I don't know if you realize it but the rather simplistic Distro Chooser at www.tux.org suggests DSL for those with a computer older than 2 years, don't want to install onto hard drive, and would like a more technical version of Linux.

I run DSL on a work laptop so that I can use Bluefish to do my HTML editing and not distrub the hard drive.

When DSL boots up it only has one warning, but it doesn't seem to affect the functioning of DSL.

"can't locate mprob block major 2"

I'm not sure what this means. Any ideas, I think I quoted it correctly, but I may have made a few mistakes in joting it down quick.

When I try a shut down or a reboot it just freezes and then ejects the CD is that how it is supposed to work?

What might be going wrong?

I run a 2.8 PIV, 512 megs of ram, Toshiba Laptop. I save mydsl and backup on a USB memory drive.

Running DSL 0.8.0

Thanks for your help,
mowestusa

Does this work when you shut down:

remove the cd from the tray when it opens up.
Close the cd tray.
Press the ENTER key.
Wait a couple more seconds (5-10).

Hey, that worked perfectly. Actually, I didn't have to wait for a few seconds it was right after I pressed enter the laptop shutdown just like expected or rebooted.

Thanks

Any idea about the informational message I get. It happens during the auto-configure part of the boot process.

I have noticed trouble getting a printer to work, could that be involved?

mowestusa

My guess is that your computer's graphics chip does not switch back into "text" mode after the Xwindows interface is shut down.

Normally, you should see a text mode (looks kind of like an old MSDOS screen) message that is something to the effect of "Please remove disk from CDROM, close tray and hit ENTER to continue"

Just for kicks, try typing this in at the boot command prompt when you next boot up DSL:

dsl vga=normal

and see what happens. I don't know what the other errors mean, but I think that they are unrelated to your printer problems. What is the manufacturer and model number of your printer? How is it connected to your computer?

I get the modprobe error on every machine ive used, inc AMd1900XP, PII 400, Libretto laptop and this mini-itx board. So I think its nothing to worry about too much.

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