Re: Debian installation hangs

[Robert Vollmert <rvollmert@gmx.net>]

> > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the
> > problem.  It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't
> > like being probed at boot time and is locking up.  Some systems will
> > require an entry on the "boot line" or use the tecra rescue disk like the
> > lap top systems need.  Search the archives at www.debian.org for the
> > source of a new rescue disk if you have a aha27xx disk controler. You will
> > also find sources of 1440 SLINK disks but I would not recomend them at
> > this time.
> 
> The line before the "md driver" line was the floppy controller detect, which 
> worked.  And before that, was a perfectly correct detection of both IDE 
> controllers and all four devices on them.  What I'll try is booting up with a 
> few more combinations of hardware device disabled, to see if this works.

Now that you mention it, I think I remeber the reason my computer paused on
boot was neither the md-driver nor the previous driver; it was the SCSI-driver
which followed. Here is part of the dmesg-output I get when booting the debian
kernel:

...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ppa: Version 1.42
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa:     SPP port present
ppa:     EPP not supported at this address
ppa: Probing port 0378
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
...

maybe this helps,

robert