The machine is a Celeron(Mendocino) 300 Mhz machine.
I've been trying to install Debian Sarge (rc3 installer) with a 2.6 kernel, but it locks up immediately after loading the kernel and initrd. The monitor goes into Suspend mode. I've also tried a few Live CD's (Knoppix 3.8.1, Kanotix-2005-02) with a 2.6 kernel and the same thing happens.
Older versions such as Knoppix 3.7, DSL, and Feather Linux work just fine (they use 2.4 kernel). There was a message from the Live CD's about passing an undefined mode number, but I just pressed space to continue and it worked. I could install Debian using the standard 2.4 kernel (boots fine), but I'm worried that I'll be stuck when I try to upgrade to 2.6.
The boot options I've tried for 2.6 include the following in different combinations: atapicd, nosound, noapic, acpi=off, nofstab, noscsi, nodma, noapm, nousb, nopcmcia, nofirewire, noagp, nomce, nodhcp, nobiospnp, noinotify, pci=nobios, pci=bios, noaudio, noddc, nolapic, noswap, nousb2, pnpbios=off, nowheelmouse, mem=64M, debug, no-hlt, noisapnp, ide0=none, ide1=none, pci=off, panic=5.
The panic=5 option should have reboot the computer after 5 seconds if there was a kernel panic, but nothing happens. Though I can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot the computer.
I tried using a serial console in case it was just the video that was failing. I hooked up a serial cable to another computer and used minicom. I used the boot options: console=ttyS0,9600n81 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text for the Celeron. For the Debian installer, that worked fine for the standard 2.4 kernel. But for the 2.6 kernel there were no kernel messages whatsoever.
I'm willing to install Debian using the 2.4 kernel and troubleshoot the 2.6 issues later, but if any of you have any ideas that I've missed that would be great. I'm considering removing the expansion cards one by one, rebooting after each is removed.
The machine is a Celeron(Mendocino) 300 Mhz machine I can get cpuinfo and dmesg messages from the 2.4 if that would help.
Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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