99% chance i the kernel on the Cd is not compadible with athlon, you need to make your own boot disk, or, if possible it would be easier to install on a non athlon, upgrade the kernel then move the HD back to the athlon.
you need linux 2.2.13 to boot on athlon.(or newer) nate On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Alain Birtz wrote: abz >Hi, abz > abz > abz >I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new abz >PC. abz > abz >However I was not capable to make it to the installer. abz > abz > abz >When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and abz >then it starts loading stuff, like a normal boot does. However, when abz >it arrives at the line abz > abz >NCR53c406a: no available ports found abz > abz >it hangs there. abz > abz >The cursors waits at the beginning of the next line. abz > abz > abz >Here is my transcription of the log: abz > abz >... abz > abz >VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 abz > abz >VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later abz > abz > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio abz > abz > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio abz > abz >hda: JUBITSU MPE3136AT, ATA DISK drive abz > abz >hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVER 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive abz > abz >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 abz > abz >ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 abz > abz >hda: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, 13031MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1661/255/63 abz > abz >hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128 kB Cache abz > abz >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 abz > abz >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M abz > abz >FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 abz > abz >md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 abz > abz >NCR53c406a: no available ports found abz > abz >_ (hangs here) abz > abz > abz > abz >I looked in the Learning Debian book for boot arguments, and I found abz >NCR53c406a corresponded to NCR 53c406a-based SCSI host adapters: abz > abz > abz >I have NO SCSI device on my computer, I only have an IDE HD. Therefore abz >I find rather normal that it cannot find 'ports' for it since there are abz >none. abz > abz > abz >I tried using max-scsi-luns=0 (and =1) arguments to prevent it to scan abz >for SCSI device...it still hangs at the same point. abz > abz > abz >I tried using ncr53c406a=0 to disable interrupts and it didn't work abz >too abz > abz > abz >I also tried disabling several BIOS options that could have lead to abz >trouble...no luck. abz > abz > abz >But, when I gave boot arg pci=off, I got 2 extra lines before hangs: abz > abz > abz >NCR53c406a: no available ports found abz > abz >eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still abz >depends on it. abz > abz >o Skipping can for PCI HBAs. abz > abz ><<hangs> abz > abz > abz >Some people told me that, because of my Athlon processor, I should try abz >boot floppies with potato. abz > abz > abz >I made the floppies and was able to boot from the rescue floppy. It abz >asked me for the root disk and I put it in. abz > abz > abz >It loads the the ramdisk, free some memory, then freezes. abz > abz > abz >here is the log: abz > abz >VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press abz >ENTER abz > abz >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 abz > abz >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. abz > abz >Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed abz > abz >_ <<hangs here> abz > abz > abz >Here is the list of my hardware: abz > abz >AMD Athlon 550 Mgz abz > abz >1 IDE hard-disk: 13 gig abz > abz >128 meg of RAM abz > abz >Nothing SCSI abz > abz >FUJITSU motherboard (AMI BIOS ) abz > abz >Sceptre Monitor 17 inch (VGA comptible) abz > abz >S3 Trio3D/2X cheap graphic card abz > abz >Ethernet card: StarTech abz > abz > abz >Do you have any idea of what could be wrong? abz > abz > abz >Thanks, abz > abz >-Laurent Birtz abz > abz > abz ><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> abz > abz >Alain Birtz abz > abz >Qc, Canada abz > abz >Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] abz > abz > abz > abz >-- abz >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null abz > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 1:17pm up 155 days, 1:22, 2 users, load average: 1.51, 1.62, 1.62