I'm trying to install slitaz-base on an old laptop I have. It is a NEC Versa 4050h with 40MB ram and (I think) 90MHz processor.
It doesn't have a CD drive or usb ports, so I pulled the hard disk out and stuck it in my desktop (which has a CD drive) and installed slitaz-base. The install was successful and slitaz boots fine using the laptop hard disk in the desktop.
However when I put the hard disk back in the laptop it won't boot. I select slitaz in grub and it begins to boot but hangs at
root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz root=/dev/hda1 [linux-bzImage, setup=0x2800, size=0x1e5c4c]
I've tried (separately) adding acpi=off and acpi=noirq to my kernel line but it doesn't change anything.
I've successfully used Damn Small Linux on this laptop in the past so I'm thinking it should be possible to get slitaz to boot.
Any ideas what might be causing the problem and what I could do about it?