help ?
Hi,
My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0). The
system hangs after configuring the serial ports. Here is what the last screen
looks like.
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Running /etc/init.d/boot
.
Loading modules lp ...
ne loading device 'eth0'
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using irq 9
.
cdrom Module inserted ...
isofs ncpfs nfs nfs smbfs ipx # module nfs is loaded twice?
.
serial Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A
Mounting local file systems...
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /user1 type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /user2 type ext2 (rw)
none: Host name lookup failure # But hostname was configured
Mounting remote file systems...
Local time: # I chose "localtime" *
Cleaning up /tmp, /var/run and /var/lock ... done
Console setup:
Linking /dev/console to /dev/tty0
Configuring serial ports....done.
/dev/cua0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
/dev/cua1 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16550A
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That's it; here the system hangs.
I went over the installation procedure again, this time doing everything except
partitioning the two SCSI disks - the old scheme was retained. After
configuring, I went into the shell instead of rebooting and checked some of the
boot scripts. I am not familiar with shell scripts, but found one error in
/etc/init.d/boot : a chown command was wrong (chown root.tty ...); I changed
root.tty to root:tty, and rebooted the system. It hung at the same point.
The first time I did the installation, I chose the "hard disk boot" option, but
this did not work. It hung, searching for a disk in the FDD. On inserting the
boot floppy, which too had been prepared, it booted, only to hang as mentioned
above.
I am not sure what other information would be useful, but here are some of the
hardware details.
Pentium 100 MHz
Two SCSI HDDs : SEAGATE ST5 1080N (1030 Mb each)
using Future Domain TMC-3260 (PCI) controller.
One 3.5" FDD
One ATAPI CDROM
NE2000 ethernet
Monitor is 14" SVGA colour
* India is 5h30m ahead of GMT; is it possible to set up linux to show Indian
Standard Time (IST)?
Can someone help?
Thanks.
Shankar.
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