I recently rebuilt a dual 933Mhz P3 machine from a slightly unstable Gigabyte GA-6VXDC7 mobo to a hopefully better Intel STL2. After the switch the machine (up to date Etch, 2.6.18-686 kernel) wouldn't complete the boot sequence... it would hang up with a "hda: interrupt lost" message.
OK, I'll just reinstall it I thought. The Etch (RC1) install apparently went fine, grub menu shows up... but then into the same hang. Trying various noapic/nolapic/nosmp got rid of the "interrupt lost" but still hung soon after some messages about agpgart and eth0 (wish I'd made some more detailed records). Ubuntu 6.10 live CD and install (2.6.17 kernel) worked fine (but it's Debian I want!) Installed Sarge using an old CD and that worked fine (including with 2.6.8-686-smp kernel). Upgraded from the Sarge install to Etch (2.6.18-3-686) and that's working fine too (SMP and all, no bootparams needed). So: it's not the 2.6.18 kernel that's the problem (which was my initial concern). Any tips for how I can get d-i to install me a properly bootable Etch system, or as to what information I can provide to make a useful bug report ? Thanks Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
