Other Help Topics :: booting problem in DSL

bit of an update. i downloaded and burned the 0.9.1 iso and get the same problem. it just freezes at "booting the kernel" i've tried every combination i could think of...base, with and without hardware, failsafe...it never gets past booting the kernel. it's like it suddenly doesn't see my cdrom?

ke4nt1, thanks for replying. I tried the boot commands you suggested but 1.0rc1 is still booting extremely slow. It seems as though it boots at normal speed until it gets to the point

setting paths...

After it gets to that point it really starts to crawl. I am not sure if this information helps. You mentioned that it might be getting confused? Should I format the hd and see if it boots normally with a clean hd? To answer your question I am using the default username that 0.9.3 gave me when I installed it to my hd. Thank you for your help and I am open to more suggestions.

anyone have any ideas that I can try?

I'm having a similar problem here,

System:
Custom, Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 1GB of ram ...

Problem: After "runlevel: 5" I get a blank screen and have to do a hard reboot.

Has anyone figgured out why this happens? is it because of the grafix card ... I shouldn't have any problems (Matrox G550) ... I'll try it with different boot options (again *sigh*) if anyone figgures this out let us know.

Only options I can think to try are:

dsl noapic acpi=off noapm nomce noddc ram=XXXM vga=normal

or

expert *which prompts for everything iirc*

avey

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