Laptops :: current machine ... no boot

AS a hobby I occasionally managed to get DSL running on older machines. Now I got this Dell Inspiron Laptop from work and just for fun I put in the DSL CD (downloaded current version ).... To my surprise it does not boot....

I tried acpi= off and nousb as described by evangineer but that does not help either....

Any suggestions

?

Grrinnnn

Describe the steps leading up to the failure. The more details, the better.

This is how far I got....
I make sure the machine boots from the CD.... works
I get the "preboot" (?) screen in which I can set boot options or just give Enter. From my experience I could just start DSL by pressing Enter....
Then the screen goes black.... and stays black....

Dell Inspiron 5160 1GB intern, 3 MHz.

I would really like to show off with DSL on my new workplace...

Grrinn

Try typing in:

failsafe

at the promp, and then press ENTER

or maybe:

dsl vga=normal xsetup

and then choose XVesa server and try some different resolutions like 640x480x16bit or 800x600x16bit.

original here.