Bug#228276: Sarge install fails to boot on Dual Pentium Pro
On Mon, 3 May 2004 01:13:44 +0100, "Martin Michlmayr" <tbm@cyrius.com>
said:
> * Alex Lian <alian@alum.mit.edu> [2004-05-02 20:08]:
> > Just tried. Still same problem, though it goes to a black screen instead
> > since the UI has been improved...
> >
> > I'll try fiddling and removing hardware to see what helps.
>
> What kind of kernel are you normally using? And this works?
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com
So apparently it's my Adaptec AHA-2940UW with bios 2.20 that's preventing
it from booting.
After removing it, it got past and prompted for the root disk.
I googled and saw the prior kernel image issues, but
I tried various kernel flags to no avail so far.
-Alex
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Alex Lian
alian@lian.name
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