Booting issues on Toshiba Qosmio F40 w/ slackware 12
 

At first it would hang at...
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f:

I then tried to boot with option acpi=off
It now hangs at...
io scheduler cfq registered (default)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

http://www.slax.org/forum/viewtopic.php?=&p=76495

In case anyone else has the same issue this thread was very helpful to me.