On Thursday 22 February 2007 09:44, Jonathan Steel wrote: > I downloaded the first Debian 3.1r5 CD (binary 1) via bittorrent > yesterday. I installed it on my laptop using the 2.6 kernel and after > the laptop rebooted, the last message on the screen was 'booting > kernel' and then it froze. I then tried installing with the 2.4 kernel > and it was fine. I tried the 2.6 kernel a few times but I got the same > problem each time.
If your laptop is a fairly recent model then chances are it is not very well supported by the Sarge 2.6 kernel. I'd suggest you try the Etch installer [1], which uses a much more recent kernel. If that still fails, try if booting with one or more of the following parameters works: noapic, nolapic, noacpi.
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