Bug#276780: Installation report
On Saturday 16 October 2004 13:12, Ahmad Khayyat wrote:
> using linux26 hangs the system upon reaching the first dialog in the
> installer (the language selection). I had to use vga=771 at booting
> from the installer CD or I have no display.
The system hanging on the first dialog sounds like the keyboard is not
responding.
I've seen another case like that where disabling USB helped (see the F7 help
screen before booting the installer). You could also try disabling the
(local) apic with 'noapic nolapic' and disbling acpi.
> I tried to use the woody netinst CD image and it worked fine (kernel
> 2.2 though). But once I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8-686-smp, the
> system booted completely and presented a login prompt but was not
> responding at all. Now I wasn't sure is it not responding or is the
> keyboard not working! Honestly I could not tell as I didn't thing of
> any way to tell!!!
Again, this sounds like the keyboard is not responding. Can you access the
system over the network (e.g. with ssh) if it is "hanging" like that?
FWIW: I have a Satellite A40 myself and have not had any problems with d-i so
far (and I do test installations fairly often). It's running beautifully with
a self-compiled 2.6.8 kernel.
See [1] for an installation overview if you're interested.
[1] http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/toshiba/
Cheers,
FJP
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