Toshiba Satellite 1805 S273 Laptop - boot problems
Posted: Tue 07 Mar 2006, 19:26
From other peoples posts here I know that Toshiba laptops are something of a mixed bag where it comes to success in booting up. What I'm working with is a Toshiba Satellite 1805 S-273 laptop that I aqquired used. Processor is an Intel Pentium 3 and there is 248MB of RAM. The internal CD rom drive works but the floppy drive is dead. Booting from the Empty Crust Puppy ver.1.0.7 everything appears to be normal until the choice of X server. Boot hangs after the choice of X is made. With Xvesa the last line on the screen is "0x011 640x480x16 starting X with video mode 0x011 and mouse input/mice" it then hangs and while the keyboard works nothing happens and a hard reboot is the only way out. Choosing Xorg results in a black screen with no messages - keyboard works but again a hard reboot is the only way out. Have tried boot options 1,2,3,and 4. Anyone got any ideas on what to try next?
Thanks,
Alice
Thanks,
Alice