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Re: new Etch install fails to boot



Hi,

I recently made a huge mistake, which might help you...
I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, and all seemed to go very well, but then I rebooted and Etch with the default 2.6.18 kernel could/would not find my two NICs. I then wiped everything and installed Fedora Core 6, same problem (pretty much the same kernel I believe), so I then re-installed Etch (from scratch) with still the same problem, until I decided to turn off (disable) the Power Management in the BIOS.

I think your problem was with bootup, but maybe this helps you out, if you haven't already found a solution.

Robert


From: Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: new Etch install fails to boot
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:18:27 +0100

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:36 -0400
Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> wrote:

Hello Steve,

> > Have you tried booting with a noapic option?  Older machines
> > sometime require that;  Mine does, and it's a similar age to yours.
> I haven't tried this, but I'll look into this and the other
> suggestions I've received.  Thank you.

TBH, it doesn't appear that your machine is getting far enough into the
boot sequence for this to be an issue.

Having said that, I'm no expert, so don't quote me on it.

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        / _)rad        never immediately apparent"

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