At 10:25 AM 12/18/96 -0700, you wrote: >I seem to be having trouble booting with Debian version 1.2. >Hardware: 486 sx-40 (AMD) 20 M memory >820 M Seagate HD using DM when in Dos >When I cold boot (reset button) The boot floppy will load and run >When I WARM boot, (shutdown and restart) the loader hangs >at the word 'David' when loading one of the cd-rom divers. >When I try to boot using loadlin from dos, >first, the speed shown is 13.11 BogoMips vs 26.11 from booting from >the floppy and the program hangs up when loadng the keyboard driver.
Are you using any network card? If not I have no clue of what's going on. If yes try putting "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down" just before "reboot -d -f" in /etc/init.d/reboot. This will take care of shutting properly the Ethernet card that may be causing problems. Good luck. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 "Where does this path lead?" said Alice "Depends on where you want to go." Said the cat ("Alice in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll.) -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.