Re: AMD, Cyrix and 2.2r don't mix; ncr53c406a;

[Meela Davis]

Hello all!   I have experienced a similar problem: I had debian potato working with an pentium processor, but a combinatiuon of upgrading hardware and a 'helping friend' uninstalling most of the system convinced me to restart the install from scratch.   The new system: Athlon k7 pro gigabyte k7 series mobo ordinary ide drives and gfx card   Problem: On booting, I get the regular messages until ncr53c406a: no available ports found. Then the system freezes, ctrl-alt-del doens't work.   I know that ncr is a scsi device, but I doubt very much that the problem lies here because I haven't had scsi devices, ever. This is just the point at which the boot process fails, and reliably so.   If anyone has suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks!       Hello list,   I recently downloaded the CD image of potato, officially called '2.2r' I tried an install on an AMD 1.1 TB Socket A w/ 768 mb ram, Asus AV7 motherboard I got a kernel panic halt, then it completely freezes up, ctl-alt-del don't even work.   Last week I tried to install the same 2.2r, but for a different media, onto a Compaq Presario w/ a Cyrix CPU, same thing, kernel halt then it spits out is junk a mile long.   I have installed this version successfully, just not on these two machines.  The machines I have had luck w/ all had Intel CPU Pentiums, and one Pentium !!!   What this all boils down to is that I gotta be missing something here.  Do AMD and Cyrix CPU require a special boot mode or something?   Anyone experienced the same problem with AMD and Cyrix?   Maybe potato 2.2r official CD images aren't ready to be classified as STABLE,