Debian Installer Hangs on MacBook
So I reconfigured my new MacBook (MacBook4.1, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz,
4GB RAM) to dual-boot between OS/X and Ubuntu (keep reading; this isn't
about Ubuntu) using rEfit. I chose Ubuntu because it was easy, and I
just wanted to get a feel for how well Linux would run on the MacBook.
It worked fairly well, but it wasn't long before it just started feeling
"dirty" to me; I longed for pure Debian. So I downloaded the 4.0.r3.13
netinstaller ISO and burned it to CD, and then booted from it.
No matter what options I've tried (noapic, nolapic,
genericblahblahIDEblah, irqpoll, whatever I could find that looked
promising), the boot process hangs fairly early in the process, usually
when it gets around to trying to access the drive/CD, complaining about
hda (or hde, depending on boot options, etc) not being ready, or
complaining about timeouts, etc.
I'm unsure how to get beyond this. Any suggestions?
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Kent
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