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Re: Freeze after startup with bf24



(Following up to myself...)

I wrote:
> I need the e1000 nic driver, so I'm using the bf2.4 boot floppies from:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4
>
> Unfortunately, right after the boot up (when the select language
> display is up) the machine freezes and wont accept any input --
> capslock doesn't light the keyboard led, either.  The machine is a
> Precision 350 from Dell that came preinstalled with Redhat and was
> running kernel 2.4.18.  The floppies I made work fine on another
> machine here.

For what it's worth, this happens with the standard bf2.4 as well.

> If anyone has any suggestions that'd be great, otherwise I'll probably
> end up setting up my own kernel for the install.
>
> Thanks in advance.

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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
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