I have encountered a problem that was mentioned (although not answered) in December on the debian-cd and debian-boot lists. Here is the problem:
While trying to install 2.2r4 from CD onto my IBM Thinkpad A30, the installation hangs after "md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8". The problem persists even when I try to boot using "linux thinkpad=floppy". I am a complete linux beginner, so I have no idea what to do. I have tracked down 2 leads (besides the above mentioned posts in December, which pose the problem but did not draw any responses). The first is from an old posting at: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=2491185&list=242 which suggests that I should disable the driver that is loaded after the md driver. I don't know how I would do this. The second lead is from someone's personal website which reads as follows: "Debian won't install on the ThinkPad: the standard kernel freezes after "md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8". Further research reveals it to be the SCSI probe in fdomain.c." Again, I am too much a beginner to take this information and run with it! Any advice would be sincerely appreciated. Sincerely, Howard __________________________________________________ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
