Thank you very much Philip, the PCI=NOBIOS argument worked fine. BYE!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Blundell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Pablo F. Gimenez Turk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Boot problems on an old TM5000
> On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 20:09, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:33:40PM -0300, Pablo F. Gimenez Turk wrote: > > > I've got an old Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 notebook with a Pentium 75Mhz PCI-Bus and 24Mb RAM, just for testing purposes, and whatever installation package I select (base, compact, idepci) always get the same after the root: prompt: > > > > > > PCI: Discovered primary peer bus XX > > > > > > (where XX are ascending hexa values) > > > > > > I'm booting from rescue.bin disk on floppy disk images in order to partition, format and finally install Debian on this machine. > > > > > > I'll appreciate your answer a lot: > > > > Have you tried re-burning the floppies or using other floppies? > > Floppies often cause problems, though i haven't seen this one yet. > > I don't think a bad floppy could cause this kind of thing - or at least, > it doesn't seem very likely. This pretty much has to be a kernel bug > or, considering how old the machine is, a BIOS32 bug that the kernel is > failing to work around. > > Try booting with the "pci=nobios" argument. Or try the 2.4 flavour when > that becomes available (maybe it is already, I haven't really been > keeping track). > > p. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
