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

[Troy Piggins]

* Greg Lehmann is quoted below :
> sugestion 1 - try a distro that has memtest so you can rule out your ram
> as a problem. ubuntu 7.10 has memtest, not sure about earlier versions.
> I just ran it on box I use to test installs and found some bad memory.
> Your post has helped me out too!

Lol.  Glad I could help :-/

> suggestion 2 - Did you try the latest ubuntu 7.10 to try and get a
> distro with the latest kernel and drivers? opensuse 10.3 is also very
> new so might be worth a look to see if it will boot.

I haven't tried 7.10 but will now.  6.06 had the LTS til 2011 for server
edition, that's why I wanted to install that.  The was hardware fails these
days I'll probably need another reinstall by 2009 anyway.

The gentoo I tried to install is the latest.

> I think /dev/hdd will be the ide drive. If that is the case I wonder why
> it is not /dev/hdc or /dev/hda. What does bios say it is plugged into in
> terms of IDE controller? /dev/hdd should be secondary slave. You should
> probably make it a master on the primary channel. If the cdrom is a bit
> dodgy maybe use ide=nodma as a kernel boot parameter?

The hard drives are not plugged in at all.  BIOS does not detect them, nor
should it.

I don't understand how there could be a secondary slave, there is only one,
therefore primary, IDE controller.

I'll try your kernel boot parameter as a check.

> Good luck,
> 
> Greg

Thanks mate.

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Troy Piggins