Re: Installer hangs/fails
Michael Abbott wrote:
This morning I started the process of installing Debian on my DELL
Inspiron 5150. I'm booting the installer off the official 3.1 i386 CD.
If I try to use 'linux26' as my parameters, the following displays when
the installer hangs during the hardware detection phase:
Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives
84%
Loading module 'ide-disk' for 'Linux ATA DISK'...
It seems that this hadn't really hung. It just took about 4 minutes to
initialise (I must not be very patient ;). However, the next module,
'ide-cd' hung for at least 15 minutes, so I think this is still the case.
I found out through some other reading that you can switch virtual
consoles during the installer so I skipped to the log to see what it
said. This is what it looked like (the last few lines):
Jan 6 16:17:07 hw-detect: Detecting module 'ide-generic' for 'Linux IDE
support'
Jan 6 16:17:07 hw-detect: Trying to load module 'ide-generic'
Jan 6 16:17:07 kernel: ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
Jan 6 16:17:07 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
Jan 6 16:17:07 kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16
(level, low) -> IRQ 57
Jan 6 16:17:07 kernel: ICH4: chipset revision 1
Jan 6 16:17:11 kernel: hw-detect: Detecting module 'ide-disk' for
'Linux ATA DISK'
Jan 6 16:17:11 kernel: hw-detect: Trying to load module 'ide-disk'
Jan 6 16:21:41 kernel: hw-detect: Detecting module 'ide-cd' for 'Linux
ATAPI CD-ROM'
Jan 6 16:21:41 kernel: hw-detect: Trying to load module 'ide-cd'
I hope that provides some further information :) Is there anything
additional I can do to diagnose this problem?
Thanks,
- Mab
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