Hi Adrian,
Out of curiosity: Why aren't you installing an up-to-date Debian unstable on your Amiga?I don't see any point trying to debug issues which might have already beem fixed years ago.I mean, kernel 2.4.x is almost historic these days and both Sarge and Etch are just way too old to start worrying about them now.
I just find it interesting that the kernels all seem to hang at the same point whenever I start them from the Workbench. I think I tried the latest one from the wiki page over the weekend and it did the same thing. I would like to figure out why, so I don't have to go through a convoluted startup process to run Debian. Can you quickly explain how to install amiga-lilo?
Just take the disk out of your Amiga and use debootstrap with the --foreign option to install a current unstable snapshot onto the disk. Then boot the system with a more recent kernel.You can also find a base system plus kernel and initrd here:https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/chroots/ [1]Adrian
Thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware that it could be installed that way. I'm not super-familiar with Debian, I've only used it and Ubuntu a few times in the past. I'm more familiar and comfortable with Fedora/Redhat and the RPM package system. I'll have to get another larger hard drive for my spare PC and install Debian on a partition to give that a try.
John Voltz