Alain Birtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Generally, it is the *next* message (the one that doesn't appear) which is the trouble-maker. > Some people told me that, because of my Athlon processor, I should try > boot floppies with potato. True. > I made the floppies and was able to boot from the rescue floppy. It > asked me for the root disk and I put it in. > > It loads the the ramdisk, free some memory, then freezes. > > here is the log: > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press > ENTER > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed > _ <hangs here> Very strange! > Here is the list of my hardware: > AMD Athlon 550 Mgz > 1 IDE hard-disk: 13 gig > 128 meg of RAM > Nothing SCSI > FUJITSU motherboard (AMI BIOS ) > Sceptre Monitor 17 inch (VGA comptible) > S3 Trio3D/2X cheap graphic card > Ethernet card: StarTech > > Do you have any idea of what could be wrong? Not offhand. We will be uploading a new potato boot-floppies (2.2.5) soon, which is 2.2.14 based. Maybe that will fare better. If not, we'll file a bug against the kernel, that is, file a bug against kernel-image-2.2.14. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
