I'm seeing this same behaviour on a Dell Inspiron 5150 with the NVIDIA Go5200 chipset and an SXGA+ LCD. If only Dell would change the name of a laptop when they totally change its features!

Quote Originally Posted by neri
Hi, I've been unable to boot knoppix in my brand new Dell Inspiron 5150. I've tried a variety of boottime options (failsafe, xmodule=radeon, xmodule=fbdev, noapic, 2, idebus=33) to no avail.

In failsafe mode, I see the kernel decompress, but everything stops with:

CPU speed is 3056.5628 MHz
Host bus clock speed is 0.000 MHz
cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice: 0

Any clues?