Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

[Mark Willson <cdr.nil@gmail.com>]

Kyle Barbour wrote:
> Amazingly, this worked. It hung for about two minutes after the
> hardware detect, and after I'd given up, continued going. Here's the
> boot options I used:
>
> boot: expert noapic nousb acpi=off
>
> I tried using fewer, but couldn't get it to work with just noapic or nousb, etc.
>
> Do I need to do something to re-enable these things once I have a
> functional Debian system?

Kyle

You might be able to get the usb running by "modprobe usbcore", but I 
have never tried this process.  I think you will have to live without 
ACPI and APIC, but I am at the limit of my knowledge now.

> The install now hangs during the install software phase, and for I
> believe a much more innocuous reason. I was able to switch to console
> 4 (CTRL-ALT-F4), which displays the message: To continue, enter "Yes";
> to abort, enter "No:, but there's no prompt to answer it. (The
> question relates to "untrusted packages", presumably since it can't
> get the GPG keys.) I haven't figured out how to pass this threshold
> yet, but maybe there's a way. I'm optimistic. If you have thoughts,
> I'd love to hear them.

Again, I can't offer much here.  If you are not already installing the 
minimum Debian system (i.e. no additional packages beyond what is needed 
to boot and login to a command prompt), then you could try that.

-mark