Piers Kittel wrote:
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When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all:============================== Booting from CD-ROM ISOLINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot: Loading /install/vmlinuz.............. Loading /install/initrd.gz.............................. Ready. ==============================
When I was instaling Debian on my laptop it crashed somewhere near as you mentioned (I don't remember exactly). The solution was adding noapic kernel option at boot time:
boot: linux noapic --Mitja Podreka