Laptop freezes during Damn Small Linux startup

[jsauni]

I've downloaded and burned a DSL iso to a cd and tried to boot up the laptop with the live cd.

DSL boot screen appears and i press enter to continue.

While it goes through checking stuff it freezes when it comes to this point

INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
Running Linux Kernel 2.4.31
Processor 0 is Pentium III (Coppermine) 648MHz, 256 KB Cache
ACPI Bios found, activating modules: ac battery button fan procesor thermal
[square cursor]

^ square cursor thing stops blinking

Anyone know why this happens?

[MikeTbob]

Hiya jsauni, welcome to the forums
When you get to the boot screen "boot:" type in

noacpi acpi=off

And then press enter, I think this will allow you to boot correctly.

[jsauni]

Hi Mike,

I tried the command you recommended and the following came up:

Could not find kernel image: noacpi

Thanks for the welcome.

[Jonathan183]

I've downloaded and burned a DSL iso to a cd and tried to boot up the laptop with the live cd.

DSL boot screen appears and i press enter to continue.

While it goes through checking stuff it freezes when it comes to this point



^ square cursor thing stops blinking

Anyone know why this happens?

I found the same problem, I ended up using nopcmcia and vga=7xx ... I think it worked with vga=788 or something similar.

[MikeTbob]

Try is with this option

dsl noacpi

It should work, if not then there are more commands to try.
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[AngryDevil]

Hey jsauni,

I know this is really old, but I had the same problem as you, and while the answer is the type this during the boot:
noacpi acpi=off
When using Damn Small Linux, you have to preface it with dsl.

So, when you see the boot: line, type dsl noacpi acpi=off, and you should be fine.

Good luck.