system crashes when accessing boot-sector?
Hello again!
Just tried to install a new server with d-i, and encountered a problem:
when the installer tries to write the boot-sector the system crashes -
and it's a interesting crash => it instantly goes to an integrity-check
of the BIOS and hangs there. the only way i can get out of that is to
switch power off (reset doesn't help).
It happens with GRUB and with LILO, so i think this must be a general
problem of hardware or kernel? anybody seen this before?
it's an old Western Digital HDD with 3.2GB and a new board (i think from
MSI, but I'm not sure, since it's @work and i'm @home) with an i845
chipset (it's an P4 3.06GHz with 1GB RAM), and it's a server-board (1HE)
I've seen that LILO tries to install the boot-sector to a IMHO strange
device (i guess this is devfs?), maybe it helps if I install it to
old-style /dev/hda, I'll try that tomorrow and inform you.
best regards
Markus
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