Re: Debian boot cd stalls: Dell Dimension E521 with amd64

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 22:50:33 +0000, Joel Malard wrote:
> The installation stalls just after the message
> 
>    "io sceduler cfg registered (default)"
> 
> I tried "install BOOT_DEBUG=3" but got no error message.
> 
> I tried netcfg/disable_dhcp=true
> hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
> exclude port 0x800-0x877
> debian-installer/probe/usb=false
> 
> one at a time but to no effect. This PC came with a preinstalled XP and
> I didn't create a partition because I don't care to keep the latter OS.
> When I tried to reinstall XP to try check the BIOS settings it complained
> that the unpartitioned space was too small, the main partition has another OS
> installed, presumably Linux. 
> 
> Where might the the installation be stalled? Any help would be most welcome.

Try "acpi=noirq" or even "noacpi" as a boot parameter. Also, it seems
that you have to check which version of the BIOS is installed:

http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/189-Dell-Dimension-E521-with-Linux.html

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