A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello! > > I have a dual Pentium III 450 system with an Asus P2B-DS/350 main board, > in which I removed everything but the floppy drive and the IDE CD-Rom, > master on the second channel. > > The standard Debian boot disk hangs probing the Adaptec SCSI card bundled > in the main board; I tried making custom boot kernels with 2.2.13 and > everything hangs asking if I have a color monitor.
The standard boot disk hangs when the aic7xxx driver is probing, isn't it? It's a known problem; some alternative boot floppies (the Rescue disk, and the Driver disk) are available here: http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19 [...] > Is there some known problem with Linux and this Asus mainboard, or with > double Pentium III? With the Asus mainboard, no. With a dual PIII, yes. The standard kernel included with Debian (2.0.36) has horrible support for dual anything. Immediately upgrading to the latest 2.2 (2.2.13 at this writing) is a _very_ good idea. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
