Debian permanently hangs during installation boot process
SITUATION
Debian permanently hangs during installation boot process.
Last boot entry: "aacraid raid driver version, Apr 20 2002"
ENVIRONMENT
Motherboard:... Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro
Processor:..... AMD Athlon 64
Hard Drive:.... Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 80GB
Boot Disk:..... Debian on CD-ROM, Woody, version 3.0r3
ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND
Hard drive new, no previous OS installed, formatted using fdisk under
"live" Linux distro Mepis.
Debian also will not boot using other HD vendor in same environment -- HD
not a factor.
Disk partition: hda1 2GB boot; hda2 10GB linux; hda3 2GB swap.
Situation same if RAID set "on" or "off" in BIOS.
Am aware Gigabyte RAID drivers not available for Linux; didn't expect OS
installation problem though.
Mepis Linux will HD install on different HD -- but prefer Debian.
Also, RedHat 9.0 will cleanly install and boot.
Other Linux live OS's, however, will not boot in same environment, e.g.:
Knoppix through ver. 3.7 & Knoppix 64-bit.
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