Hi, Using isolinux woody cd, the boot hangs after:
something ttyS01 something If I boot with bf24 to use a 2.4 kernel, it hangs after: hdc: something 70324/16/63 ... /dev/ide/something same as hdc [PTBL] 4298/255/63 (The actual cylinder counts are different than I print above). Now, I don't know what to do. Installing gentoo, though I got slightly farther. Assuming that I'm going to go with debian, I will describe what happens in gentoo since it's all at the non-distribution specific level. I installed gentoo on the drive (actually it was attached to my current debian system at the time), upto just before I install a boot loader. If I try to install grub by typing "grub", the computer hangs. So, I tried lilo instead and included: lba32 ... image=/boot/vmlinux append="hdc=4298,255,63 hdd=cdrom hde=cdrom" Now, I no longer get the [PTBL] message, but it still hangs after the last drive. I have a pentium 3 on a via chipset mb and a maxtor ata100 pci ide adapter. hda: maxtor 40GB hdb: maxtor 120GB hdc: maxtor 40GB hdd: cdrom hde: cdrom hde is on the ide adapter. hda and hdc are the same drive model. linux is installed on hdb in 3 partitions. I tried different kernels also: 2.4.18 and 2.4.20-pre10-ac1, but I get the same results. What else can I try? Kendall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
