Installer hangs while booting
Hi,
i try to install debian 3.1 on one of my machines, but the installer
seems to fail somehow - it stops responding and nothing is happening for
more than 10 Minutes ( i even waited more than 30 Minutes sometimes ).
When i boot from cdrom/dvdrom i just press return to accept the default
linux 2.4 Kernel. I get a menu to select the language ( english ), a
second menu to select the region ( germany ) and at last a menu to
select the keymap to use ( german ). After that the hardware-detection
starts. It displays the message: "Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM
drives" and below the progress-bar (5% ) there is the message "Loading
module 'aic7xxx' for 'Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891' ..." There it
stops and nothing is happening for more than half a hour. The hdd led is
burning constantly, but the DVD-ROM is doing nothing at all. I tried to
use the 2.6 kernel but it fails even befor i reach the first menu with
the last message something like "net: protocol family 2" or somthing
like that. I tried to use several installer options to disable ide-dma
or acpi or apic etc. but nothing works.
When i use expert-made i make it to the menues. The Problem is that most
of the time the installer stops responding while i am browsing the
menus. This happens in more than 95% of the time; in fact i only managed
to start cdrom-detection once and there it hangs at the same step as
before: ( 14% ) with the message: "Loading module 'aic7xxx' for 'Adaptec
AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891' ...". Ok, i managed to deselect scsi-support
and every chipset-driver except the PII4X4 ide. Now, CD-Rom detection
stops with the following message:
"Loading module 'ide-cd' for 'Linux ATAPI CD-ROM' ..."
I removed the network- and the ISDN-card, but nothing changed. I
replaced the IBM-HDD with a WD 1000BB but the same problem again.
Just to see if it works, i tried to boot debian-Knoppix 3.4 and basicly
got the same problem.
My hardware:
PIII 800
Asus P2B-S motherboard with Adaptec AHA 2940U2W SCSI-controller on board
( Intel 440BX-chipset )
256 MB ram
VGA: Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 GTS graphics card or ATI rage pro 128
PCI-cards:
Realtec 8139 100MBit-network adapter
Fritz ISDN-card
ISA-cards:
Soundblaster AWE 32
IDE:
primary master: WD 1000BB ( was at first: IBM DTLA 307045 )
secondary master Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1222
Thanks for any help in advance!
Thomas
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