boot halts
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Jun 29 11:23:27 UTC 2005
Fredric Johansson wrote:
> I have problem getting my old laptop to boot into the installationprogram
> it halts in the middle of the boot and the last messages is:
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1100-0x1107, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1108-0x110f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: FUJITSU MHK2048AT, ATA DISK drive
>
> have tried with FC3 och FC4 and latest debian with same results, got it working
> with gentoo but that is too slow for the computer
>
> does anyone know how to solve this?
>
Did you read your install help and try the various no* options to turn
off various hardware detection?
If you hava a pcmcia card installed, take it out.
Remove any USB devices.
Unplug anything else you can easily unplug.
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Cheers
John
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