I downloaded the image: "sarge-i386-netinst.iso" from Jun 9th, 2004 and it
didn't load the installed. It hung at 93% "Starting PC card services...".

However, disabling PCMCIA support allowed it to boot just fine.

-Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Michlmayr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:36 AM
> To: Ian Neubert
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Hangs at ide-floppy detect on Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop
>
>
> * Ian Neubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-23 15:50]:
> > I tried to load it up on my laptop and it consistently hangs at
> 'Detecting
> > hardware / 95% / Skipping unavailable module 'ide-floppy' for 'Linux IDE
> > floppy'.
> >
> > Is this a known bug?
>
> PCMCIA causes some machines to hang.  Can you please get a new image
> from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if it
> works?  If it still hangs, can you boot with:
>   linux hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
> This will turn PCMCIA off.
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>



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