I recently installed a new board and an AMD Duron (750 MHz). Could not get it to boot because the chipset required me to use an ATA100 compatable IDE driver. I booted with a compatable floppy, compiled a new kernel, installed it, then was OK.
redgirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hello, : I had debian potato working with an pentium processor, but a combinatiuon of upgrading hardware and a 'helping friend' uninstalling most of the system convinced me to restart the install from scratch. : The new system: : Athlon k7 pro : gigabyte k7 series mobo : ordinary ide drives and gfx card : Problem: : On booting with the install CD, I get the regular messages until ncr53c406a: no available ports found. : Then the system freezes, ctrl-alt-del doens't work. : I know that ncr is a scsi device, but I doubt very much that the problem lies here because I haven't had scsi devices, ever. This is just the point at which the boot process fails, and reliably so. Ive tried no-scsi boot options, but no luck. : If anyone has suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. : Thanks! -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 *
