On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 13:11 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Oddly, some report that it says it's skipping the ide-floppy driver and > then freezes. That is right before it starts pcmcia, and maybe it does > not update the progress bar quite right.
But it is updated, I see "Starting PC card services" when I run hw-detect. Is db_progress fully synchronous? > This is probably i386 only, at least all reported hangs are on i386 > hardware. Yes, you're right, I thought he meant whether it was possible to use to option on non-i386 machines. I know that there are problems with the resource ranges on other archs, but I don't think it causes any freezes. > > Is the procedure described in: > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#id2453819 > > still valid? > > This might work, but with d-i you have to do it before the hardware > detection pass, so boot in expert mode and run a shell before running > hardware detection. One user reported success when I told him to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts prior to hardware detection. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
