Slackware Dell Inspiron 8600 prob

Brainfreeze · 01-14-2004, 11:03 PM

Hey i have a Dell inspiron 8600 laptop and i couldn't wait to install slack onto it. So i did so.

I installed slackware 9.1, it done so smoothly, but when it booted for the first (and now every time), it freezes.

it gets as far as this in the boot screen

Quote:

cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff:

then stops..

Any ideas? Please help if you can

nesware · 01-15-2004, 04:13 AM

is that a kernel message or a boot loader message?

anyway... try booting with a bootdisks from a slackware ftp site
at boot try
mount root=/dev/hda1 (or what ever is your root partition)

try to find out if it's lilo or your kernel that wont work and play around with different settings or kernels

tips to check:
man lilo
/etc/lilo.conf
/boot dir

strsst · 01-15-2004, 01:00 PM

Looks like a PCMCIA problem.
If you are able to, remove ALL of your PCMCIA cards and then try to boot. However, for instance, if you have an ethernet card and a 1394 card and you can't remove the ethernet card, try to remove one card at a time and then reboot. Leave the ethernet card and remove the other.