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Re: 14 CD's Sarge: CD #1 Hangs



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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, craig wrote:
> This system is a EPIA-M Mini-ITX with a EPIA-M series motherboard
> with a ID C5C VIA C3 Ezra processor. 900 MHz; -march=i586; m3dnow
> -03 -pipe; -fomit-frame-pointer; -mmmx; 12 stage pipeline; FPU@ 50%
> clock; 1.35v; CPGA/EBGA; 52 mm2
> 
> PROBLEM:
> It does not boot to an installation screen form disc #1.
> I assume that disc #1 is the starting disc for installing Debian:  yes/no
> What I do get is a Debian graphics screen.
> 
> The system has a DVD/CDROM drive as it's only installation drive.
> 
> Is there a solution to this problem?

1) Does the load isolinux (show screen that gives you options on how
to boot the installer) ?

2) Did you attempt to disable acpi support using noacpi?

3) Have you attempted to boot using 'install26' instead of the default
'install'?


Don Armstrong

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