Howdy, I just downloaded the floppy version of Debian from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ and I am attempting a default install on a new machine.
My hardware configuration: PCI MB 486-dx2/80 with 32 megs of RAM. Maxtor 7540AV Cylinders:1046 Heads:16 Sectors:63 Size:515 PCI controller is on the motherboard. UMC880 chipset (41-P301-00111111-072594-UMC880-H) AMIBIOS (American Megatrends 1994) for 486 PCI Green_PC Trident VGA C4.0(02) I have setup a 20 meg primary DOS partition on the machine to put DOS 6.20 and MS's CDROM extensions to verify that the hardware operates normally. Everything seems to be okay. The other ~500 megs on the drive are unpartitioned. Here is a sorta complete list of what I see when I attempt the install: (The boot intro screen, left most of it out.) This floppy uses Linux 2.0.29 (from kernel-image-2.0.29_2.0.29-7) boot: (I hit enter at this point.) Loading root.bin........... Loading linux....... Uncompressing Linux Now booting the kernel ... (all kinds of signals from the Zeta Reticuli:http://www.boblazar.com) (only stuff left on screen when it hangs) loop: registered device at major 7 hda: Maxtor 7540 AV, 515MB w/32kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1046/16/63 hdb: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is an 8272A md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). mounting /proc done. sbin/dinstall: sed: error 14 Bus error Bus error Bus error Bus error Segmentation fault and then it hangs there. On the Alt-F3 console, I see: Executing pid 458 exited, status=b. Executing pid 459 exited, status=b. ... (and so on) Executing pid 481 exited, status=b. Executing I am assuming that the kernel is hanging trying to autoprobe the PCI stuff to see the Maxtor. Is that true? Where could I begin investigating the problem? What docs should I be reading at this point? Is there some boot parameters I can enter at the boot prompt that might get the kernel past this point? Thanks, John Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
