This would be much better asked on debian-user (bigger audience), so I'm forwarding it there for you.
Julian > I have just taken delivery of a shiny new Gateway PIII machine on which I > am trying to install Debian. I have done many debian installs before, so I > am not a raw novice. > > For some reason on this machine it gets part way through booting from the > Debain 2.1 (slink) rescue floppy when it just stops soon after detecting > the ide HDs. > > ie The last few boot lines are: > > hda: WDC blah blah blah... > hdc: IOMEGA ZIP blah blah blah.. > hdd: CRD-8400B, blah blah blah > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0f3f6 on irg 14 > > Looking at the boot log of my other (old) machine it then should probably > go off and do something like: > > FDC 0 is a blah blah > md driver 0.blah blah > and so on. > > I have tried following the Debian tips of removing plug and play cards but > with no luck. I even tried the safe rescue floppy, then tried a Debian > 2.0 bootable CD but still got stuck in the same place. > > I then tried the Redhat 6 boot floppy and it started up fine making it > past the Debian sticking point with no trouble. > > Any ideas? > > Machine vitals: > Gateway GP7-450 PentiumIII 450 > 128MB RAM > SCSI card (for tape drive only) Adaptec AHA-2940 (removing this didn't > help boot) > 8.4 GB ATA HD > ATAPI CD-ROM > 3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI ethernet card > ATI Rage 128 16MB 2X 3-D AGP Graphics Accelerator (Don't know if X is > going to like this?) > SoundBlaster Audio PCI 64D Soundcard (removing this didn't help either) > PS/2 KB & mouse > > > ----- > Dr Richard Wraith IT Manager > Trinity College Parkville Melbourne Australia > tel: +61-3-9349 0112 mobile: 0417 361 093 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +61-3-9347 1610
