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Topic: CD Boot on Dell Latitude D610, Boot Hangs

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novdar

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,01:51

I have the 3.x ISO burned to a CD which boots successfully on an older Dell Latitude. On this newer one, D610, I get the initial screen where you either hit <ENTER> or <F2> <F3> and from there NOTHING HAPPENS. Not sure where to troubleshoot this. Any suggestions. The only thing I can think is that many months ago I had Dell replace the LCD Panel to reduce the resolution. I know that sounds crazy but I could not stand to look at the screen above 1024. Could that be my problem and if so, will one of the F2 F3 options perhaps fix it?

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Posted: Oct. 13 2006,02:51

hm, looks like a good wiki page. Wonder if its good to have its own page, or there's one for a table of specific machine model quirks.

Quick search on "d610":
"Nothing happens" - black screen? try vga=normal
Crashes upon "bad EIP value"? try acpi=off and/or noacpi

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