Greetings,

I'm trying to boot grml_small_0.2 from CDROM on a Dell inspiron 3200 laptop. The splash screen comes up, the informational screens F1 - F10 are viewable, but the boot process seems to hang at the point of searching for a cdrom: ... * Checking for USB. [ ok ] * Checking for firewire. [ ok ] * Scanning for USB/Firewire devices. [ ok ] * Enabling DMA acceleration for: hda [IBM-DTCA-24090] * Enabling DMA acceleration for: hdc [TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1702BC] * Looking for CD-ROM in: /dev/hdc

At this point the cdrom starts spinning...and the process hangs indefinitely. I also tried the following boot options (individually and together), to no avail:

noapic nolapic pci=noacpi nosmp nodma

grml_0.7 also hangs at this same point. The md5sums verify as ok. What other things could I try to get this to boot?

Thanks for any suggestions,

John

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System info:

Dell Inspiron 3200 D266XT, Pentium II Intel MMX 96 Mb of RAM Hard Drive: Generic IDE Disk Type40 Hard Disk controller: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller CD ROM: Toshiba XM 1702BC Pentium II processor to PCI bridge: Intel 82443BX (without GART support) PCI to ISA bridge (EIO mode): Intel 82371EB Power Management Controller: Intel 82371EB