HD Install :: frugal stalling

i manually made a frugal install on a fat32 partition but it stops at:

ACPI: IRQ10 SCI: Level Trigger

the bootdisk is a simple "SYS A:"

dslboot.bat:
linld image=\boot\isolinux\linux24 initrd=\boot\isolinux\minirt24.gz "cl=ramdisk_size=100000 fromhd=/dev/hda7 lang=us frugal norestore dma"

i would prefer to boot from my bootdisk rather than the provided floppy images because i'll be using dsl, dos, and win98se in a multimenu config system.

solved with "acpi=off" cheatcode.

original here.