On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:25:13PM -0700, RParr wrote: > > I am still unable to get Debian installed on this machine. > > I AM able to boot Knoppix LiveCD and NOT have any device conflicts. > Knoppix (5.0.1) assigns the 3ware /dev/sde and the USB card reader as > /dev/sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd and thus has no conflict. > > I used the Debian netinst to boot into rescue mode, change the apt > sources.list from etch to sid and dist-upgrade. That went well and the > system is now booting the 2.6.17 kernel but still freezing because > /dev/sde is reassigned. > > I have already edited /etc/default/bootlogd to enable boot logging but I > get no logs. > > 1) Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can log the initial boot up > stuff and figure out if something is getting assigned to /dev/sda (and > thus starting the USB reading at /dev/sdb) or if the USB assignment is > just wrong. > > 2) Does anyone know how best to prevent the USB drive assignments from > happening.
Hi, You can "blacklist" a module, so that it's not going to be automatically loaded by udev, even if a device is present. To do that, assuming the name of the module is foo, you should create an arbitrarily named file in /etc/modprobe.d directory, with contents blacklist foo You can (hopefully) try to blacklist modules usbcore, ehci_hcd and uhci_hcd to disable USB devices. To be honest, I don't think that device naming conflict is responsible for the hang, but so far I have no clue what might cause it. What CD image are you using? What are the last messages on the screen that you see? Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
