Ilya A. Naydov wrote:
I've tried this boot floppy on another PC (Desktop, Intel-based, Celeron)... It works well... So, it's not due to bad floppy...If the latest weekly build contain RC2 installer then I used RC2 installer... :-)
the rc2 images are in: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/
Loading linux..................... Loading initrd.gz.... (four dots, .gz is completly loaded in RAMdrive)
i just try with an old dell latitude CP M233ST (pentium) and it works
i'm not a kernel expert but can you play with bios options and kernel params (like acpi,...) at boot promptthen it should start kernel, but it seems that it couldn't, I don't know why... Can it be kernel2.6 incompatibility?..
I took boot floppy from 3.1r0 (I think it is not RC2) and it works well on this very old laptop...
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