Can't install breezy on Dell Dimension

[Keith Burton]

On Wednesday 25 January 2006 09:23, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> I'm trying to put breezy on a 'Dell Dimension XPS T500' 500 mHz, 128 Ram
> (more later once it's working).
>
> I can't seem to get it to go further than recognise the cd drive, then
> it just sits there doing nothing. I managed to get into bios and make
> sure it is booting from the cd first, but that didn't help.
>
> Anyone familiar with Dell problems?
>
> Duncan

One of my machines had a similar problem, freezing up early in the boot 
process. I was told to boot like this:
Boot: linux noapic nolapic

When I added that to the "Boot:" request, that box worked fine.

Good luck,
Keith