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From: Paul Maser on 15 Feb 2005 14:10
When trying to install "sarge" in either expert or expert26 mode I
get the following at the prompt:

loading /install/vmlinuz
loading /install/initrd.gz
Ready.

and then the computer locks up.

It's a Gateway ALR8300, with one SCSI drive off an on-board AIC
7890 interface.

If I install the woody dist using "vanilla" I can install, but
when trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.19 it boots with the agpgart
module and freezes. I compiled a new kernel with AGP turned off,
but it still tries to run agpgart and freezes on boot.

I am stymied.


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From: Paul Maser on 15 Feb 2005 17:20
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:10:12 +0100, Paul Maser <paul(a)maser.net>
wrote:

>When trying to install "sarge" in either expert or expert26 mode I
>get the following at the prompt:
>
>loading /install/vmlinuz
>loading /install/initrd.gz
>Ready.
>
>and then the computer locks up.
>
>It's a Gateway ALR8300, with one SCSI drive off an on-board AIC
>7890 interface.
>
>If I install the woody dist using "vanilla" I can install, but
>when trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.19 it boots with the agpgart
>module and freezes. I compiled a new kernel with AGP turned off,
>but it still tries to run agpgart and freezes on boot.

Answered my own question:

It seems that Gateway installed the cdrom on the primary ide bus
and debian doesn't like this when you boot off a SCSI. I moved the
cdrom ide cable to the secondary ide and now it boots off the
cdrom and finds the SCSI hard drive. That only took a couple of
years to figure out.


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From: Benedict Verheyen on 16 Feb 2005 09:00
Paul Maser wrote:
> Answered my own question:
>
> It seems that Gateway installed the cdrom on the primary ide bus
> and debian doesn't like this when you boot off a SCSI. I moved the
> cdrom ide cable to the secondary ide and now it boots off the
> cdrom and finds the SCSI hard drive. That only took a couple of
> years to figure out.

Well, i haven't seen such an error before. A good thin you found that
out as i don't think the list would have thought about it :)

Regards,
Benedict


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