Re: Problems booting Debian 3.1 on Acer 4100
The problem was really because of hotplug and everything went well
after I removed the package. Thanks for the hint and I'll try to
figureout why hotplug is causing boot problems on my laptop. And
knoppix was really handy for repairing my debian installation :-)
On 7/15/05, Juraj Ziegler <next@hysteria.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:33:59AM -0400, MJD wrote:
> > I had the same problem on my laptop. What you have to do is reboot off
> > the net install cd, then let it detect your hard drive. Then you need to
> > mount your system just like it normally is under /mnt. Then do "chroot
> > /mnt" without the quotes. Then run aptitude and remove hotplug and
> > discover, and any libraries not needed (press SHIFT-M on the libs section
> > of the installed part.) and that should let you boot. Note, do not
> > install these tools back, they never seem to work on laptops running
> > debian.
>
> Hotplug works without any problems on my Thinkpad X20 and Latitude C640.
> Please do not spread mis-information. If there is a failure connected to
> hotplug, it would be more probably connected to a module being loaded, by
> hotplug and that specific module doing something wrong.
>
>
> j.
>
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