[H-GEN] Debian install floppy boot problem

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G'day,





Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au>
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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:

>   Calculating module dependencies... done.
>   loading modules: usb-ohci usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
>   usb.c: registered new driver hub
>   PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.2
>   PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.3
>   usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd002f000, IRQ 10
>   usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
>   usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> 
> And then it hangs.

...

> > Now I'm wondering if we can tell it somehow to skip that USB
> > stuff.  For my purposes at the moment, I don't need USB and I'd
> > be happy to lose it if we can get the thing to actually run.

> I looked in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and didn't find
> anything useful there (well I suppose you could disable the PCI
> bus...).  Perhaps you could disable USB through the BIOS?  I'm not
> even sure that'll work.

I only looked at this closely when reading Jason's response... but it 
looks to me like the kernel has booted by the time this has happened. It 
doesn't look to me like the base kernel is the problem, but the usb kernel 
modules that are being loaded. If you can boot the machine up from a 
rescue disk and remove the module from the set that's automtically loaded 
at boot you may have more luck.

OTOH I may be wrong. It's been a long time since I played with linux 
modules in any significant way. Looking at my debian box it appears the 
file to edit if I'm right is /etc/modules.

Benjamin.




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