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mmrr:
hello all

five tries from iso using target, a pentium 2 , 266mhz, 160mb ram, in a toshiba satellite 4010cds laptop: various boot parameters tried, including 2 unlisted ones
which made the difference with another linux...'acpi=ht' and 'pci=biosirq'...the kernel didn't recognise the first.

i looked in the forum a bit and saw a list of cheatcodes mentioned as been moved to faq's but i couldn't find them there

thanks for any help, mm

roberts:
Boot codes are in the faq here http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#bootcodes

Many older laptops were not VESA compliant and with tiny X required framebuffer.
Typically they were 800x600. Is yours? If so we can help.

mmrr:
thanks re bootcodes, roberts
that was fast; i was just checking the tc iso on another compu--allok!--
you're right, 800x600, xorg or framebuffer have worked before on target compu
i'll have a look at the codes a few hours, cheers, mm

mmrr:
xsetup, base, swapfile=hda3 entered at boot,
after display/mouse choice, a blank screen

all boot options not on pages f2 or f3 declined:
image '*'unrecognised by the kernel

now rebooting with no options, crashed

any useful words? any words, cheers, mm

toshiba laptop 4010cds:
p2/mobile[deschutes]/266mhz/160mb-ram/55gb-hd 
video summary:
chips&technologies/chip-f65555 hiqvpro gui accelerator/
vesa oem string-chips 6x555 super vga/ 2mb video memory

 

curaga:
As far as I know the early Chips&Tech graphics cards do not support Vesa 2.0.

First try to boot to text mode: "tinycore 2"
If it works, see what "Xvesa -listmodes" says.

Then, try text mode with the framebuffer: "tinycore vga=788 2"
If you can get a full-screen framebuffer, the Xfbdev server will work for you.

If all these fail, you need the Xorg extension.

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