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Posted: Feb. 11 2006,13:17 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Feb. 11 2006,22:48 QUOTE
Describe the steps leading up to the failure. The more details, the better.
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Posted: Feb. 13 2006,20:06 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,03:22 QUOTE
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.
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