On 7/28/05, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0700, Meistro Master wrote: > > What's weird is that the keyboard works fine initially, because I can > > select the boot parameters and so forth. I am using the installer from > > The boot prompt uses bios calls, the language selector uses the linux > kernel interface to the hardware. Different interface -> different > behaviour. :) > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-binary-1.iso > > > > I do have two SATA hard drives; perhaps I need a newer boot kernel? > > Reading through the list archives it sounds like people have had some > > issues with SATA pre-2.6.12. > > > > Are there snapshots in .ISO form? Thanks for your help, Len! > > Well from what I read today, the current snapshots aren't building for > some reason, and there have been some trouble with the new 2.6.12 > kernels partially due to a name change. > > Feel free to try my unofficial sarge image with 2.6.12 though. > > http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/
Well, I tried your unofficial image, with the same results: locks on the language selection screen. Just for the hell of it, I through in the official Sarge i386 CD installer, and... it works. I'll see if I can get one of the smp em64t kernels running on it. Kind of bummed that the amd64 port won't seem to take. Is there any way I can pull logs/debug info from the failed installations? I would be willing to extract it if it would help the port team. Thanks again for all the tips. --Maestro
