Hi, I'm cc'ing back to debian-boot, some more ideas may surface there. I'm a bit confused about your present status (I've deleted our rather lengthy conversation from this thread since it confuses me and I think we should start fresh with some facts.)
1. You verified that bf24 version doesn't complain when initializing PCI, correct? 2. At present your setup is failing to load root.bin, correct? 3. Have you found any combination or root.bin and rescue.bin that will continue all the way to the installer? 4. What are you doing when the system hangs? What is the last message printed? 5. Do you have access to a cdrom? ( If so, try http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/bootbf2.4.iso , it isn't a full cdrom, just enough to get the network up, but if your floppy drive is broken this may be our only choice. ) I see you have tried multiple floppies, downloaded multiple times, so it doesn't look like your problem is corrupt floppy images or bad floppy disks. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

