Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Weston
On 12 Dec 98, at 10:24, David Stern wrote: > > Yes, I was trying again last nigt, and waited for 20 minutes or so > > without result. And the Master/Slave jumpers are definitely configured > > correctly. > > I thought of something the other day.. umm.. I know it's generally > considered somewha

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Weston
On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > require an entry on the "boot line" or us

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Weston
On 10 Dec 98, at 10:23, David Stern wrote: > > I tried booting with SoundBlaster, CD-ROM and SyJet disabled, but it > > seem to help. And all the devices work fine under another O/S (that > > speak its name on this list), so I don't think the actual hardware's > > You'll find the Debianeers have

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Weston
On 9 Dec 98, at 0:12, David Stern wrote: > > I searched the kernel sources and I found this is the "multiple > devices" driver. That handles disk striping (RAID 0), RAID 5, etc. > > I have never heard of this problem, nor do I have any insight as to > what might cause this error. I was taugh

Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread Mark Weston
Gb disk SyQuest IDE SyJet Teac IDE CD-ROM S3 Trio video card Soundblaster AWE32 Thanks in advance Mark Weston