Re: Bug#234459: Hangs at ide-floppy detect on Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop
On 2004-02-23, Ian Neubert <ian@TWAcomm.net> wrote:
> I tried to load it up on my laptop and it consistently hangs at
> 'Detecting
> hardware / 95% / Skipping unavailable module 'ide-floppy' for 'Linux
> IDE
> floppy'.
>
> Is this a known bug?
>
> Steps:
> -Boot from cd just by hitting enter
> -English (USA)
> -American English
> -It goes through a hardware detect, then loads installer components,
> then
> does
> a 2nd hardware detect and hangs at above messege
Yes, this is known. See also #228960.
You can get round this, but you need the very latest installer, but
you'll hit problems further down the install process.
You might be interested in looking at http://tinyurl.com/2egza
which documents my experience with exactly the same machine, and the
workarounds I made to get a bit further before giving up. I got to
the end of 2.6, but the system was not bootable due to GRUB/LILO problems,
for which bug reports exist or were submitted.
The same document has pointers to the latest installer in section
1.2.2.
I'll update it in a couple of weeks when 'beta3' comes along :-)
Alexis
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