[newbie] Blank Screen at boot. Can't load Linux(again)

[Marc Resnick]

Here we go again.   I tried to get acpi to work, as a battery manager. I set it to load at startup. I restarted the computer to see if it would work. I chose Linux in LILO, and behold, a complete blank screen. No command line, no errors, no anything. Just a blank screen. So I powered off, and restarted. This time I went into failsafe. Went fine until I got some error about not being able to locate [something like DSID]. It then stopped, and was not active at all. I rebooted again, and tried linux-nonfb. Same as failsafe. Note: The acpi at startup was the only change I made since my last boot.   What am I supposed to do now. I assume something with the boot record in windows?   Thanks in advance, Marc