On 26 March 2008 I purchased a computer with an Intel dual core CPU and a SATA hard drive. Since then I have off and on spent in the aggregate 77.94 hours trying to install and configure Etch on it using the third revision of net-install disk.
I have so far made eight attempts to get a working system using the Debian installer. Each time something happened to make the installation unusable, and I could not find any way to fix each problem without starting the installation all over again. What happened earlier today is more or less typical of the what I have been up against. I was able to complete the eighth installation with the xfs file system and KDE. On the recommendation of the installer I used the LILO boot loader instead of GRUB. One of the first things I did by way of configuration today was to run aptitude update and then to run aptitude upgrade. On of the packages to be upgraded was the kernel (2.6.18-6-686). As part of the configuration of this package by aptitude, I was told that this was the same kernel already installed and that consequently I would have to reboot as soon as the upgrade was finished. I did so, but the reboot ended when the machine hung after returning the following the following message: "LILO 22.6.1 Loading EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" What does this message mean? What if anything can I do to get the machine working again? (Subsquent boots returned the same message after booting?) Or is my only option to attempt a ninth installation and hope for the best? Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]