Re: installation boot problem
Steven J. DeNeefe wrote:
> mcd=0x300,10: Init failed. No mcd device at 0x300 irq 10.
>
> It continues to display messages that look normal (similar to the ones
> shown in the Installation Manual at www.debian.org) until it bets to
> the message:
>
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
>
> Then it hangs. The next message I would expect to see would be
> something about my ethernet card (a NE2000 compatible card)...the next
> line shown in the Manual is:
>
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 40 05 15 d0 77
>>From a mail I posted to debian-user a few weeks ago:
jeffreyj@ksu.ksu.edu wrote:
> I apologize if this should not be sent to the bugs address.
> After having difficulty with redhat I downloaded the boot, root and base
> disks. On booting it stops at the line:
> IP Protocols ICMP UDP TCP
>
> I have a Packard Bell Pentium with a N2000 clone ethernet card.
> I am assumed my ethernet card was not being found.
The problem is indeed the N2000 card. If a different driver touches
the I/O base of the ne2000 it will hang the system bus. You can avoid
it by adding the correct address at the boot prompt. Just type
linux ether=11,0x340,eth0
at the (boot disk) boot prompt (if your N2000 card uses IRQ 11 and
I/O-address 0x340). You can later add it to your lilo.conf file. Just
add the line
append="ether=11,0x340,eth0"
to your lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. Or if you use it as a module just
add
options ne irq=11 io=0x340
to /etc/conf.modules.
Thanks,
Peter
--
Peter Tobias EMail:
Fachhochschule Ostfriesland tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de
Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik tobias@debian.org
Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany
Reply to: