Re: Installer stops (freezes) when scanning hardware
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:02:20AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> As Kamaraju suggests, a LiveCD such as Knoppix will go a long way toward
> indicating if the hardware is at fault or not. I suspect you do have a
> hardware problem, since you're having trouble with both Mandriva and the
> Debian installer. And as he suggests, the solution might just be to
> start replacing things, which nowadays can be expensive, since you can't
> replace a mobo without it being a match for your CPU and RAM, which
> means you might need to replace those too. Ouch. But you might can
> replace the video card (disabling on-board video if necessary), and a
> few other things.
I'm on dialup and like to get small things if I can.
Something I've found very helpful to have when working with flaky
hardware is a totally different kernel to boot. I have had good luck
with the OpenBSD boot floppy (an actual floppy, their current
floppy42.fs) or cdrom42.fs (a 2.88 MB file). The BSD dmesg boot
messages are _very_ informative and are used in BSD land the way lspci
is used on debian-boot.
If this boots you'll at least know that the hardware should be fine. If
not, perhaps you'll get a different error message that could help to
track down the problem.
Doug.
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