Installation Install on Laptop

[springshades]

I'm getting this error on a laptop trying to start up Mandrake Linux 10.1, which I've just installed. I can't get it to boot successfully.

init init/main.c:718
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
Freeing initrd memory: 171k freed
init init/main.c:724
do_basic_setup init/main.c:634
do_basic_setup init/main.c:636
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd7ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ10 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.

It stops there. Does anyone know what this is? I'm wondering about ACPI issues, but I don't know how to fix it.

[sdousley]

When u get to grub, type in the box

acpi=off

see if that works.

[springshades]

I'm using lilo actually. Is there a similar command? I can't actually get to a terminal or interface of any kind that is actually useful. Escape gets me to a text based boot menu, but I can't put any useful commands in. My failsafe boot options and the standard one have an error. I should probably have mentioned that what I wrote in my previous post was only the ending of the boot output.