On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:56:23PM -0800, CHRIS WAKEFIELD wrote: > I rememeber a few months ago trying to boot with a freshly compiled > kernel and having the boot freeze umptine times at the scheduler > initialization (?) tried many different kernel configs, gave up and > stuck with the only kernel that'll boot my new machine - 2.6.16-16.
I had the same problems, it was only till the 2.6.19.x versions that kernels started booting again. > Seems the latest 'debian-testing-amd64-netinst' doesn't use this > kernel. My original image from an install of a year ago stops > installing at 'tzdata' (tried 6 times now). A little newer: http://tmp.tryba.nl/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Dates in the iso are Aug. 10 2006. I guess this is the image I used to install my machine. Maybe it works for you. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Daniel Tryba