Gentlemen,

I've been using Salix for six months now on both of my old laptops (Thinkpad T30 and Toshiba SatPro 4300), and it's boring. I switch them on and they just work, day after day, time after time, it's just the same old thing - successful booting and operation every time. Never a lock-up or ...

Thanks gapan, that worked perfectly.

All that time I wasted searching on Google when the answer was right here...

Nda

Hi,

This is not a problem at all, merely a small irritation.

On my T30 laptop I prefer to set the mixer volume levels to 100% and then use the volume up and down buttons to control volume levels. Unfortunately, every time I restart the machine the mixer volume defaults to 87% and I have to ...

Hi ccrettz,

If you were using the original Grub, not Grub 2, it is easy to restore with a live CD if you issue the following commands, as root, in a terminal:

grub

root (hd0,x) - my Mint 7 root partition is /dev/hda5, so the command was root (hd0,4)

setup (hd0)

exit

On my machine Salix root ...

gapan,

You need to provide the full path to the vmlinuz file, including the mountpoint .
This is the kind of thing I was asking for in my original post.

What RC version of the live CD did you use?
I used Salix 13.0.2a to do the original installation. I used SalixLive 13.0-rc3 to do the Lilo ...

I tried these two suggestions and unfortunately neither worked. I tried 'compact' in three different places but to no effect, and running lilo always gave me the error message that 'image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic' didn't exist, which is silly because that is what the Mint 7 on hda5 uses ...

lipk,

I will try that. It's a lot less typing than 'suppress-boot-time-BIOS-data'!

gapan,

Yes there is an initrd so I shall include a line for that.

I'll try these tomorrow. Thank you both for your help.

Nda

Hi,

I was so impressed with Salix when I installed it on my very old Toshiba laptop that I decided to put it on my T30 Thinkpad, which is almost as old . This installation works well but I do have a couple of problems.

The first problem is the boot procedure. After the boot screen 'Loading Linux ...

I rebooted and used "Linux acpi=force" as you advised. I still got the message about the old BIOS but the machine booted ok.

The fan is now automatically cycling on and off so there must be some default configuration in lm_sensors that is doing that.

I will have a go with pwmconfig(8) later, but ...

Hi Thenktor,

I've been busy since I posted earlier. I installed lm_sensors, ran sensor-detect but it made no mention of fancontrol:

root[nda]# sensors-detect
# sensors-detect revision 5729 (2009-06-02 15:51:29 +0200)
# System: TOSHIBA SP4340 (laptop)
# Board: TOSHIBA Portable PC

This program ...