debian-installer (squeeze-ia64) fails on new machine

[Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>]

Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine?
Trying the small-CD method - the line "Loading Operating System ..."
comes up... and never goes away.  No error messages, beeps, or any
other complaints.  The md5sum of the iso image is correct, and I've
used 2 separately written CDs - same result.

The system is ordinarily running 'lenny' without any problem (different
partitions, eventually we hope).

Oh...and 'reportbug' can't be used to report the problem, because the
'debian-installer' isn't installed ... :(

Any insights welcome!

	-f