1f 17 Darik's Boot and Nuke: Troubleshooting Commands ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Try these boot commands if DBAN hangs at the black boot screen: nofloppy Start without loading the floppy driver. This allows DBAN to run on most problematic laptop computers. nosilent Print kernel messages. Watch for errors and report the last few lines that are printed if you make a support request. noverify Run a write-only wipe. Try this boot command if you know that this computer has a bad disk in it. Read http://www.dban.org/faq/ before making a support request, and attach the DBAN log file (dban0000.tgz) if DBAN fails in any way. DBAN cannot write log files to USB floppy drives. Press the 1fF517 key to read about RAID devices. Press the 1fF117 key to continue.