boot halts

[John Summerfied]

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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