Laptops :: Dell Latitude doesn't boot

It disables acpi power management interface, that displays things like remaining battery life etc.

Your laptop may fall back to old-fashioned apm power management, in which case you are good to go.

Otherwise, you may want to selectively disable some acpi features instead of just turning the entire system off.

Or you can just leave it off if you prefer.

See here for some of the boot parameters to experiment with:

http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.html#boot_reference

what do you mean by the non syslinux version?

i have the same lappy and the same problem.
except mine is a dire situation
(its a work lappy and is plagued with the GMonline version of windows)

i am using a sandisk cruizer mini 128mb with the dsl-usbinstall script based install
i get to the splash screen for dsl but then system hangs without letting me boot or showing the boot prompt.

help much appreciated.

bump.

ok i got past all that (it took some digging and a dl of syslinux)

now i get to the boot screen where everything happens and then after it finds all the usb (just after the no warranty screen)
i get
{CRE}Looking for DSL image in: /dev/sda

yes i boot from usb pendrive no i dont think it ever finds it

original here.