Debian potato can't boot Gericom Webboy (RH and Suse can)
Hi,
a collegue got a Gericom Webboy (a SIS chipset based laptop, see
e.g. http://mobilix.org/gericom_webboy_e.html ) and wanted Linux on it. I
helpfully suggested Debian. We got the CDs from linuxiso.org
(2.2_rev2) and tried.
None of the 3 CDs will boot. They either don't show a display, which may
be cured by vga=791, and always hang after the "md" module has printed its
crap about not finding a RAID SCSI card.
Naturally we assumed that the md module was at fault, so I compiled a
Debian kernel like the standard installer kernel, but with the md stuff
taken out. Doesn't help, unfortunately. I also tried an old potato 2.2
kernel (2.2.14), but with no luck.
The machine booted fine with RH 6.2 and 7.1 and with a recent Suse
install CD.
I then tried to replace the kernel on a boot (rescue) floppy by a RH
kernel. This succesfully booted and started dbootstrap. However,
dbootstrap didn't find the Debian base system on the Debian CD 1 (I
presume this was the punishment for using a RH kernel :;).
I am a bit emberassed now and would appreciate some help.
cheers, Stefan
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