Bug#504016: Lenny Beta II + daily build, kernel dies after initrd.gz....ready.
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:10:54PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> reassign 504016 linux-2.6
> thanks
>
> On Saturday 01 November 2008, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:
> > But I found it by completely disabling almost everything in the BIOS,
> > getting a success, then systematically reenabling stuff.
> >
> > It's the Promise ATA-100 BIOS. If I reset that BIOS from "Auto" to
> > "Disabled", then I get the
> >
> > Ok, booting the kernel
> >
> > message. The A7V Board has an ATA-66 controller in the chipset, plus an
> > additional ATA-100 Promise controller on the motherboard.
>
> The strange thing is that your initial report shows that the initrd and
> kernel do get loaded from the CD; it just fails to take the next step.
>
> As this really looks like a kernel issue, I'm reassigning your report to
> the kernel team. Maybe they can offer additional help.
>
> > > It could also possibly an isolinux problem. have you tried installing
> > > the Lenny kernel on your Etch system and booting that?
> >
> > I won't even know how to do that. ;-) I know how to compile a kernel
> > for the running system with make-kpkg, but that's it.
>
> Just download the package from packages.debian.org and install it
> using 'dpkg -i <package>'.
>
> > I'm not a Linux freak, but a user. When I looked for Lenny news on the
> > website, I read that we should try the installer, so I did.
>
> Thanks a lot for testing it. We do appreciate that and the fact that you
> filed your installation report.
>
> Unfortunately when you do run into such a problem with Linux it's
> basically up to the user to find the correct person to look into the
> problem and to provide any needed info to track it down. Depending on the
> issue, that can require a significant amount of effort on the user's
> part.
Hans-Joachim, did you try later versions of the installer on this
system? Did any of them succeed?
Cheers,
Moritz
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