Newbie installation problems
Wondering if someone could help me.....I'm trying to change over from Win
95 to Debian, which would be fine if I could actually get the latter
installed. I'm using a Cheapbytes CD, and BIOS is set up to boot from the
CD drive. I press ENTER at the boot prompt, and a lot of technical info
flashes past on the screen, before everything comes to a complete halt. No
bootlog, since I can't actually get that far, so excuse my vague explanations!
I did manage to write down what was on screen at the time:
Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
hda: SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB) gq033, 4124MB w/496KB cache, VHS=525/255/63
hdb: CD-ROM 24x/AKOx, ATAP CDROM drive
hdc: WdC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128KB cache, CHS=2100/16/63
hdd: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64KB cache, CHS=2114/16/63
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x3f6 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
At which point everything just stops. No reboot, no error message. I left
it for 10 minutes one time, and nothing happened.
My setup is:
AMD K6 2 300
Samsung 4.32 GB IDE HD
Western digital 1GB IDE HD (that I want to put Debian on)
M1614TA IGB IDE HD
Philips 24x CDROM
Soundblaster clone
Cirrus Logic 5436 PCI display adapter
Samsung Syncmaster 3 monitor
No SCSI cards/HDs, and I don't have any of the hardware mentioned in the
boot help options. I checked the Linux Hardware Compatability FAQ, and I
don't seem to have any hardware that could cause a problem as far as I
know. What am I missing? Why does it stop straight after the "md driver"
line? It's probably something really obvious that I'm overlooking...I'd be
really grateful for any help.
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