Slackware 10 hangs at boot?

[scottmso]

I have a machine with the following specs: Dell Dimension 4400, Intel 845 (DDR RAM) chipset, 512MB DDR RAM, 20GB WD hard drive, CyberDrive CD-RW drive, 1.7GHz Pentium 4, SB Live soundcard, GeForce2 MX AGP card, Davicom/generic (included with machine) 10/100 NIC.

I installed Slackware 10 on it. The install ran fine. However, the PCMCIA and USB hotplug running at boot made it freeze. I thought "no problem, I'll just turn these off." So I did. But it continued to freeze at boot. Right after it says it goes to runlevel 3 it freezes at loading sysklogd. I turned that off. Then it freezes at dhcpcd at about the same point (which would've loaded right after that.)

I was able to get the system booting ONCE and I'm not sure how. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the problem? I think it's sorta funny that it has so many problems on this machine as it works wonderful on one of my other machines with an AMD processor and nForce2 chipset. I'd think that support would actually be the other way around, considering that the 845 is older and probably more widely used than the nForce2. Any advice appreciated!

[hard candy]

If you can boot up at all to a runlevel 3 prompt, you will probably have to use vi to add this to /etc/lilo.conf on the append line: "acpi=off".
If you can not boot up at all, you can use the install disk and you will need to let it boot up, select "setup", then the configure option, then lilo setup and add the line to the lilo header and go ahead and reinstall lilo (don't forget to add your main linux installation, I forgot to do that several times : ) )

[scottmso]

Ahh maybe that's the problem - I installed it with the "bareacpi.i" kernel instead of the "bare.i" kernel. I'm reinstalling it right now and will try the bare.i kernel.