Tarek Soliman wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to install debian with a 2.6 kernel on a Dell 2300 > The kernel panics after saying "pci" in a detection phase (I'm guessing > discover) > Does this panic get saved to a log? > > This first happened after the first boot on a net install. > It is a machine that has a PCI-only motherboard with onboard video and > sound > I put an nvidia geforce4 PCI in it so I can get TV out as part of making > a > mythTV frontend. > > It won't even completely boot in knoppix and hangs during startup > When I take out the PCI card it works fine and boots fine and even > installs > fine. > When I try the netinstall with the default 2.4 kernel it works fine > also. > Switching to the combination of 2.6.8 (I even tried 2.6.18 from > testing/etch) > and the PCI card, it panics during boot every time.
Try disabling the on-board graphics for the install. If that doesn't work, complete the install using only the on-board graphics, and then add the PCI card and tweak after the install has completed. Those are my pitiful suggestions :-) > > Any help is appreciated > > Thanks > Tarek > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]