Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:51:35PM -0500, Alain Birtz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new
> PC.
> However I was not capable to make it to the installer.
>
> When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and
> then it starts loading stuff, like a normal boot does. However, when
> it arrives at the line
> NCR53c406a: no available ports found
> it hangs there.
> The cursors waits at the beginning of the next line.
1) on an msi mainboard i found the fllowing worked well
i found that by turning off UDMA and forcing the hard drives to mode 0
during the install it made it thru and i was able to download a 2.2.14
kernel and compile it. i then turned all the ide stuff back to normal and it
went thru fine.
2) on an asus mother
i couldnt find any way to get thru it without the md driver freezing.
i placed the hard drive on another motherboard, did the install, put the
2.2.14 kernel on the mother, and away it went.
hope it helps
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Best Regards
Dave
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