[H-GEN] Debian install floppy boot problem

[Greg Black]

On 2003-04-24, ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
> Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au>
> > 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.

I'm happy to try this, but don't have a clue how to do it.  Any
clueful people out there today?

Greg

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