Re:Continued Debian Boot Problems

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

I don't think this is a boot floppy problem.
Under Debian 1.2, the "wd" driver is in a module. You should be able
to remove or reconfigure that "wd" module by booting your system with
the rescue floppy, mounting your hard disk, and editing /etc/modules
or /etc/conf.modules on the mounted hard disk. You can also boot directly
from the hard disk by adding the "emergency" command to the boot command
line.

Since it says "loading device 'eth0', I surmise that you are running kerneld
and you have /etc/conf.modules aliasing "eth0" to "wd". If that's not the
case I don't understand how you'd get that driver, unless you built your own
kernel.

	Thanks

	Bruce

From: Butch Kemper <kemper@bihs.net>
> > Using the suggestion by Bruce that I boot the system with the command
> > "linux cm206=0x350", the system now boots.  However, the system now hangs
> > when it is loading the WD driver.
> >
> > Booting from the Debian 1.2 disks dated 96-12-8, I get the these messages
> > before the system hangs:
> >
> > Loading device 'eth0'
> > wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 ..........
> > eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300 00 00 C0 A6 D2 24 WD8003, IRQ5, shared memory at 0xb800
> > 0-0xb9fff
> 
> Bruce mentioned in a post that he was building a new set of floppies for
> this weekend that would fix several problems.  Will the new set address
> these problems?
> 
> Butch
> 
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