Re: Problem with installing Debian
I had a similar problem trying to install Debian 2.0 on my machine at
work. Many Maxtor hard drives come with their own BIOS program that
takes control of the computer away from the ROM BIOS. This is done
mainly to allow older BIOS's to see the full capacity of larger hard
drives, but it may be interfering with debian's installation. If you
have this BIOS program installed, you might want to try removing it
before installing debian.
Good Luck -
Steve
> Howdy,
>
> I just downloaded the floppy version of Debian from
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ and I am
> attempting a default install on a new machine.
>
> My hardware configuration:
>
> PCI MB 486-dx2/80 with 32 megs of RAM.
> Maxtor 7540AV Cylinders:1046 Heads:16 Sectors:63 Size:515
> PCI controller is on the motherboard.
> UMC880 chipset (41-P301-00111111-072594-UMC880-H)
> AMIBIOS (American Megatrends 1994) for 486 PCI Green_PC
> Trident VGA C4.0(02)
>
> I have setup a 20 meg primary DOS partition on the machine to put DOS
> 6.20 and MS's CDROM extensions to verify that the hardware operates
> normally. Everything seems to be okay. The other ~500 megs on the drive
> are unpartitioned.
>
>
>
> Here is a sorta complete list of what I see when I attempt the install:
>
> (The boot intro screen, left most of it out.)
>
> This floppy uses Linux 2.0.29 (from kernel-image-2.0.29_2.0.29-7)
> boot:
>
> (I hit enter at this point.)
>
> Loading root.bin...........
> Loading linux.......
> Uncompressing Linux
> Now booting the kernel
>
> ... (all kinds of signals from the Zeta
> Reticuli:http://www.boblazar.com)
>
> (only stuff left on screen when it hangs)
> loop: registered device at major 7
> hda: Maxtor 7540 AV, 515MB w/32kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1046/16/63
> hdb: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
> FDC 0 is an 8272A
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
> PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
> mounting /proc
> done.
> sbin/dinstall: sed: error 14
> Bus error
> Bus error
> Bus error
> Bus error
> Segmentation fault
>
> and then it hangs there.
>
> On the Alt-F3 console, I see:
> Executing pid 458 exited, status=b.
> Executing pid 459 exited, status=b.
> ... (and so on)
> Executing pid 481 exited, status=b.
> Executing
>
>
> I am assuming that the kernel is hanging trying to autoprobe the PCI
> stuff to see the Maxtor. Is that true? Where could I begin investigating
> the problem? What docs should I be reading at this point? Is there some
> boot parameters I can enter at the boot prompt that might get the kernel
> past this point?
>
> Thanks,
> John Hebert
> john@buddhist.com
>
>
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