Hi All, I'm having a terrible time trying to figure out why I can't boot my new system to install Debian 2.1. I have a: FIC-503A Motherboard Award Bios AMD K6-3 400 CPU PCI ET6000 based video card 3com 3c905b-tx PCI ethernet card PCI Yamaha YMF724 Sound Card
With all these components installed I can Install and run WinNT Workstation fine using all this equipment. yet Debian or RedHat wont boot at all. If I take out the Ethernet card and the Sound Card I can get RedHat 6.0 to install. But I don't want to use RedHat, and when I try to add the cards it won't boot. When I try to boot Debian 2.1 either by floppy or CD, with only the video card as the only PCI device even, it halts after displaying all the boot messages up to: md driver 0.36.3 max_md_dev=4, max_real=8 then it hangs. please help, I really need to run Debian. thanks! JP Goodyear
