Try a different flavour... The vanilla kernel is probably hanging while probing for some hardware you don't have... SCSI drivers seem to be particularly bad for this... I find that the "-idepci" flavour of boot floppies tends to work best for your kind of setup (new hardware, no SCSI, etc)..
Get them from your favourite mirror at dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/ ... Adam Conrad -----Original Message----- From: Christiaan Bootsma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#123427: cant re-install debian after hardware upgrade Package: boot-floppies Version: potato (stable) flavor: dont know, just downloaded the standard floppy set architecture: i386 model: self-built. amd athlon xp 1700+, elitegroup k7s5a motherboard memory: 384 mb pc133 sdram scsi: none cd-rom: 2x atapi cdrom (samsung dvd player and philips writer) network card: safeway 10/100 pci pcmcia: none im having some problems re-installing debian. i just upgraded my hardware from an athlon 1000 mhz to the athlon xp 1700+, put in a new motherboard, more memory and a bigger and fast hard disk. partitions: /dev/hda1 linux ext2 4 GB /dev/hda2 windows xp vfat 35 GB /dev/hda3 linux swap 512 MB i already installed windows xp, and now i want to install debian (i had this config before the hardware upgrade and it was all working fine). insert the rescue floppy, press enter at the welcome screen and the the kernel start loading. it hangs after the message 'loaded md driver version ....', my computer hangs and it doesn't do anything anymore (not even ctrl-alt-del). so power off and on again is the only solution. do you have any idea what could be wrong? too much memory? the ata-100 drive? grz christiaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
