ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

2020-10-07 Thread John Vakonakis
Hi everyone, I'm new to this list so apologies if this is well covered ground. I recently got a ZX6000 box (2x1.3GHz McKinley, 4GB RAM) and installed the most recent Debian image (2020-08-19). Installation went fine, but the system hangs at boot after GRUB loads the kernel (5.7.0-2-mckinley) at se

Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

2020-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi John! On 10/7/20 11:39 AM, John Vakonakis wrote: > I'm new to this list so apologies if this is well covered ground. I > recently got a ZX6000 box (2x1.3GHz McKinley, 4GB RAM) and installed the > most recent Debian image (2020-08-19). Installation went fine, but the > system hangs at boot afte

Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

2020-10-07 Thread John Vakonakis
Hi Adrian, Thanks for the quick reply. No luck I'm afraid; I tried a couple of images with kernel 4.9.0 but they hang ~20 sec after boot start (but always at exactly the same point, unlike kernel 5.7.0 that hang at random points). But, I'll keep going through them just in case I find one working.

Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

2020-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi John! On 10/7/20 6:42 PM, John Vakonakis wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. No luck I'm afraid; I tried a couple of images > with kernel 4.9.0 but they hang ~20 sec after boot start (but always at > exactly the same point, unlike kernel 5.7.0 that hang at random points). > But, I'll keep goin

Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

2020-10-07 Thread John Vakonakis
Hi Adrian, No, these systems use a LSI SCSI controller, and PCI649 (whatever that might be) for ATA bridge. I found (the? a?) problem, at least for the image with 4.19.0 kernel. It tries to load the R100 module for the ATI card in this system, but cannot find it and hangs. Passing nomodeset to th