Re: Problems booting Debian 3.1 on Acer 4100

[MJD]

I have installed hotplug on 2 different laptops, under debian, and as soon as they load on bootup, they crash the computer.  On my current laptop, i get two stop errors.  But I can load any module I want and it doesn't stop.  I don't use discover either, in case it crashes.  My current laptop is a compaq presario 2210ca, and the other laptop was an hp (I don't know the model.)  If it does work on other laptops, then I do retract that earlier statement and hope everyone accepts my apologies.

On 7/15/05, Juraj Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:33:59AM -0400, MJD wrote:
>    I had the same problem on my laptop.  What you have to do is reboot off
>    the net install cd, then let it detect your hard drive.  Then you need to
>    mount your system just like it normally is under /mnt.  Then do "chroot
>    /mnt" without the quotes.  Then run aptitude and remove hotplug and
>    discover, and any libraries not needed (press SHIFT-M on the libs section
>    of the installed part.)  and that should let you boot.  Note, do not
>    install these tools back, they never seem to work on laptops running
>    debian.

Hotplug works without any problems on my Thinkpad X20 and Latitude C640.
Please do not spread mis-information. If there is a failure connected to
hotplug, it would be more probably connected to a module being loaded, by
hotplug and that specific module doing something wrong.


j.

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