On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 22:10, m2bruce@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm having a problem with an installation on a Compaq 1211CA laptop. The laptop has 192 MB of memory, and is using a 1GHz Athalon processor. Ide Hard drive. > running /sbin/loader > at this point, the screen will flash and switch resolution then all disks spin down after 10-15 seconds. Keyboard interrupts do not work. The 'nofb' option stops the screen from changing resolutions, but the halt occurs at the same place. i've tried disabling apm, acpi, and using ide=nodma. The install has been run with defaults, and with mem=192M. You might try "noapic" in addition to the options you've already tried.
