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* lock up - what to do?
@  Ned
   ` Adam Myrow
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From: Ned @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.

Hi all,
my question is more related to hardware than to linux itself, so appologies to the list mod, and please respond privately to me.
Namely, I got a new machine with pentium 4 proc, and I wonna install debian on it. What happens though, when I try to boot from the cd rom with speakup, computer locks up on me, and the only way to get out is to reset it. Now I figured out, after many days, that the hardware is the problem. When I try to change the cmos settings and set the cd rom as the 1st booting device, the comp still locks up on me -- no matter what. I think there is some very small, stupid problem with this, but can't get rid of it.
Any thoughts and ideas? Please!

Cheers!
Ned

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* RE: lock up - what to do?
   lock up - what to do? Ned
@  ` Adam Myrow
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Adam Myrow @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'

Do you have a SATA drive by any chance?  My experience with my Dell
Dimension 8300 is that any 2.4.X kernel without SATA support will lock hard
when probing the hard drive.  2.6 seems to be a bit more robust, and just
can't find it if SATA isn't compiled in.  Once you have a SATA kernel,
things work fine.

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