Installer won't run on a PII box

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Nov 25 22:38:00 UTC 2004


On Friday 26 November 2004 06:20, Louis Garcia wrote:
> Trying to install FC3 on a gateway G6/266 box. The cd boots fine but it
> hangs at:
>
> running install
> running /sbin/loader
>
> in graphical and text mode. After a bit the kernel panics and gives a
> backtrace. It looks like the problem is in the ide layer or cdrom. If
> someone knows how to capture this let my know.

null-modem cable to ninicom at the other end. Set to 9600 8 bits no parity

Boot with console=ttyS0 and/or console=ttyS1


man bootparam

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Cheers
John




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