Bug#236487: Debian-installer (sarge) hangs on boot

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:29:00PM +0100, Marcus Jacobs wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: sarge netinstall image, downloaded March 2004
> 
> Hello, 
> When I boot from a netinstall image of sarge on my dell dimension 8250 
> (chipset Intel 850E, CPU: Intel Pentium 4, 2,4 GHz, 512 MByte Ram, PC 800, 
> USB 2.0), it comes to the page where I can choose the language. But I can't 
> do anything, the system does not react. I don't know, whether the system 
> hangs or whether just the keyboard doesn't work because there is no way I can 
> check this out (At least there is no way that I know of.)
> The same thing happens with the woody CD and the bf24 kernel. 
> Kernel 2.2 works fine, so this may be a kernel issue?

Could be.

Please run
 lspci
and
 lspci -n
when the computer is running the 2.2 kernel

> Bye, Marcus

Geert Stappers