Bug#571035: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: grub2: machine doesn't boot

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

maximilian attems <max@stro.at> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > The hole story in short words:
> > 
> > I did a test installation with the debian-installer version squeeze-alpha1 on
> > an old Toshiba Satellite 320CDS laptop with an 486 cpu and 32MB of ram.
> > 
> > Installation went without any problems so far.
> > 
> > The only problem now is: the system does not boot. Output on screen is:
> > 
> > 	Booting Debian GNU/Linux with 2.6.32-trunk-486
> > 	Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-486 ...
> > 	Loading initial ramdisk ...
> > 
> > 	[New screen appears]
> > 	Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
> > 	Booting the kernel.
> > 
> > and then the system stopps. The cursor is blinking in the next line for ever.
> 
> sorry on the run, so only short answer, this looks more like a kernel bug
> try booting without quiet and see where it really stops?
> 
> thanks
> -- 
> maks

I already tried this, the mentioned output is from booting without quiet arg, so 
no more information, where or why it stops.


Thanks for your time

Holger

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