Hi, My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0). The system hangs after configuring the serial ports. Here is what the last screen looks like.
---------------- Running /etc/init.d/boot . Loading modules lp ... ne loading device 'eth0' eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using irq 9 . cdrom Module inserted ... isofs ncpfs nfs nfs smbfs ipx # module nfs is loaded twice? . serial Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A Mounting local file systems... /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda2 on /user1 type ext2 (rw) /dev/sdb1 on /user2 type ext2 (rw) none: Host name lookup failure # But hostname was configured Mounting remote file systems... Local time: # I chose "localtime" * Cleaning up /tmp, /var/run and /var/lock ... done Console setup: Linking /dev/console to /dev/tty0 Configuring serial ports....done. /dev/cua0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A /dev/cua1 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A ------------------------- That's it; here the system hangs. I went over the installation procedure again, this time doing everything except partitioning the two SCSI disks - the old scheme was retained. After configuring, I went into the shell instead of rebooting and checked some of the boot scripts. I am not familiar with shell scripts, but found one error in /etc/init.d/boot : a chown command was wrong (chown root.tty ...); I changed root.tty to root:tty, and rebooted the system. It hung at the same point. The first time I did the installation, I chose the "hard disk boot" option, but this did not work. It hung, searching for a disk in the FDD. On inserting the boot floppy, which too had been prepared, it booted, only to hang as mentioned above. I am not sure what other information would be useful, but here are some of the hardware details. Pentium 100 MHz Two SCSI HDDs : SEAGATE ST5 1080N (1030 Mb each) using Future Domain TMC-3260 (PCI) controller. One 3.5" FDD One ATAPI CDROM NE2000 ethernet Monitor is 14" SVGA colour * India is 5h30m ahead of GMT; is it possible to set up linux to show Indian Standard Time (IST)? Can someone help? Thanks. Shankar.
