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Re: Problem with startup of Debian Linux




let me know when you have a souliton since this is happening to me too.



On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stefan Kain wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I am trying to install Debian on my noname laptop.
>
> Everything works fine until I reach the "reboot section" of
> the installation process.
>
> I reboot the system from disk and from lilo to uncompresssing the kernel
> everything works fine. the filesystems are mounted, a few demons
> are started... and so on...
>
> After run level 2 is reached, the boot process gets
> trapped at the moment where the inetd should be started.
> nothing works from then on. even ctrl-alt-del gets no response.
>
> I have an internal modem, but I haven't configured a driver module for  it.
> The network is not configured. All I did was specifying a hostname.
> I  assume, that thus the internal modem should not pose any problem to the
> kernel. The kernel  just simply doesn't "know" it, right?
>
> Is anybody of you familiar with this problem?
>
> One workaround could be to open a second shell from the rescue system
> and to remove the starting of the inetd-demon from the rc scripts,
> but I consider this to be the last resort. I want the demon to be running,
> because I want to reach localhost:80, for example.
>
>
> Any kind of help or advice is deeply appreciated! :-)
>
>
> Bye,
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
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