Wondering if someone could help me.....I'm trying to change over from Win 95 to Debian, which would be fine if I could actually get the latter installed. I'm using a Cheapbytes CD, and BIOS is set up to boot from the CD drive. I press ENTER at the boot prompt, and a lot of technical info flashes past on the screen, before everything comes to a complete halt. No bootlog, since I can't actually get that far, so excuse my vague explanations!
I did manage to write down what was on screen at the time: Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 hda: SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB) gq033, 4124MB w/496KB cache, VHS=525/255/63 hdb: CD-ROM 24x/AKOx, ATAP CDROM drive hdc: WdC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128KB cache, CHS=2100/16/63 hdd: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64KB cache, CHS=2114/16/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x3f6 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 At which point everything just stops. No reboot, no error message. I left it for 10 minutes one time, and nothing happened. My setup is: AMD K6 2 300 Samsung 4.32 GB IDE HD Western digital 1GB IDE HD (that I want to put Debian on) M1614TA IGB IDE HD Philips 24x CDROM Soundblaster clone Cirrus Logic 5436 PCI display adapter Samsung Syncmaster 3 monitor No SCSI cards/HDs, and I don't have any of the hardware mentioned in the boot help options. I checked the Linux Hardware Compatability FAQ, and I don't seem to have any hardware that could cause a problem as far as I know. What am I missing? Why does it stop straight after the "md driver" line? It's probably something really obvious that I'm overlooking...I'd be really grateful for any help.