Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 21:12 -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
> I purchased an Acer Extensa 4420-5963 laptop at retail
>
> The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not
> detect any of the laptop's network hardware
[..]
According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module,
so it's a Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapter.
> daily build of lenny netinst. But this would hang upon boot with errors
> similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/252041
>
> With the kernel boot options "noapic" and "nolapic", I was able to get
> the installer to boot and recognize at least the wired ethernet, and
> then successfully installed lenny.
>
> The resulting system hung on boot unless also provided with acpi=off,
> but there were warnings about pnpbios stuff. The laptop works fine
> after that.
I guess the old installation image had the kernel 2.6.24 or 2.6.25
kernel.
If you have some time, can you send an installation report, so the
Debian-Installer know about this problem (it takes 10 minutes) :
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/apas04.html
Thanks,
Franklin
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