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Posted: Jan. 14 2007,06:59 QUOTE

I have a "white box" from about 1999-2000, running a pentium pro 200 and 256 MB ram. I also have scsi hard drives and cd. I've tried about 8 different distros and so far only one will boot up successfully. That distro is Dream Linux 2.1 workstation. I wanted to try DSL, but I get to the point of

"Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."

and that's where it sits forever. So far, I've tried about 6 of the various dsl option parameters without success.  If anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear it, even if it's that from past experience, I should stop spending time trying DSL.
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Posted: Jan. 14 2007,17:50 QUOTE

By 'sits' it just freezes there?  Do any keyboard lights light up?

Did you try failsafe, or any other boot/cheatcodes?

You can also remove "quiet" to see the kernel messages.
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Posted: Jan. 15 2007,11:52 QUOTE

A shot in the dark: It could be a scsi problem, maybe you could take out the scsi card and try again.
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