Re: Slink bootdisks on an MCA machine (PS/2 9595)
Jor-el <jorel@ibm.net> writes:
> > I'd love to document it. Obviously, it would go somewhere around
> > <URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html>.
> >
> > What is the symptom of this happening? A hang when after the kernel says
> > Checking 'hlt' instruction...
> > ?
>
> Exactly.
Done.
> I never meant to imply that. I myself have used the Debian
> bootdisks on several machines successfully. However, this is an MCA
> machine and a troublesome model to boot (no pun intended). My question was
> actually stating 'Has anyone gotten past this point on a model 9595?'.
No clue. Ask on <debian-user> ?
> Someone who saw my post responded to me saying that if I used the
> <Ctrl>-<ScrollLock> combination, I would be able to see what was the
> actual process that was hanging. I tried this, and a lot of other key
> combinations that I could think of, with nary a response. Whereupon, the
> correspondant suggested that the kernel itself is hanging.
>
> What do you suggest I do? I would have filed a bug ordinarily, but
> I'm pretty sure that you guys who are the ones actively building boot
> disks dont have access to such a machine, and hence, might not be able to
> debug it.
What is the symptoms? It simply hangs after loading the root
filesystem RAMDISK ? Are you sure it's not bad ram or some such?
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