On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:18:41AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging > > hard right after the line: > > > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 > > > > I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers > > to the problem... > > It's probably not the md driver which is hanging (it's fairly > harmless hardware wise) but whatever comes after it. I don't > know exactly what that may be, but it could be a SCSI adapter, > network card, .. Which of these do you have? You might need to > give parameters to the kernel to tell it their addresses etc > to avoid hangs.
The stupid thing is, I have neither. (Even my CDROM is IDE, and now that's not working under Windows, either.) I let it sit for half an hour to see if it'd finally wake up, and nothing. Is there any way to tell loadlin to throw linux into a verbose mode that might tell me _what_ it's scanning? This is really annoying. jason -- "The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody." BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .