On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:07:57PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: > OK, > > a little update from myself, > > I managed to get the installer running by disabling framebuffer and > setting iommu=soft > > you can find the options with the help screens being smart i managed > not to write it down and/or remember the value for the framebuffer. > > However, KEEP WAITING. > > it seems that for some reason it takes ages to find hardware etc. > Also it's pausing for several seconds between screens (is that > related to iommu=soft - I couldn't find an option to enable iommu in > bios, google suggests that quite a few motherboards have that option). > > * Network configuration over dhcp works fine > * but it doesn't find any disks. > > So after getting it to boot my nightmares came true and etch doesn't > seem to support the disks. If there's something to know about please > let me know :) > > after searching google a bit more without useful results i just tried > to load all modules on the installer cd so I wouldn't miss anything. > No go, disks aren't recognized > > /martin > Out of curiousity, are you able to boot Knoppix (does it support amd64?) or another amd64 LiveCD distro? If so, you could do a chroot install. Though, I am not certain that you won't encounter the same trouble after installation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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