[H-GEN] Re: new system hanging at boot from kernel

[Troy Piggins]

* Russell Stuart is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:59 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote:
> 
>> I have built myself a new home server, but am having a problem that I can't
>> figure out when I try to install linux on it and hoping you can point me in
>> the right direction.
> 
> Two options.  One is that the Debian install CD, and I
> presume Ubuntu as well accept options on the boot
> command line that turn off various parts of the
> hardware detection process.  Turn them all of and
> see how far you get.

Good idea.  Will try that.

> Secondly, Knoppix and the like come with memtest86+.
> Run it overnight.

Will try that too.  Thanks.

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Troy Piggins