On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:51:35PM -0500, Alain Birtz wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new > PC. > However I was not capable to make it to the installer. > > When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and > then it starts loading stuff, like a normal boot does. However, when > it arrives at the line > NCR53c406a: no available ports found > it hangs there. > The cursors waits at the beginning of the next line.
1) on an msi mainboard i found the fllowing worked well i found that by turning off UDMA and forcing the hard drives to mode 0 during the install it made it thru and i was able to download a 2.2.14 kernel and compile it. i then turned all the ide stuff back to normal and it went thru fine. 2) on an asus mother i couldnt find any way to get thru it without the md driver freezing. i placed the hard drive on another motherboard, did the install, put the 2.2.14 kernel on the mother, and away it went. hope it helps -- Best Regards Dave ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Closer To Home Systems * Shop 6, 44 King Street * Caboolture, Qld, 4510 Ph 07 5499 3000 * Fax 07 5499 1822 * Mob 0416 173 522 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 1955906 * We Specialise in Computing Solutions and Personal Support New Systems * Upgrades * Repairs * Small Business Networking * Software -----------------------------------------------------------------------
