Debian install trouble with HP Pavillion laptop (was Re: [ale] Distroquestion...)

[Jerald Sheets]

The netboot works, and the installation completes.

It's on firstboot that it panics, and it panics before I can get control of
it.  (i.e. no single-user).

The laptop only has a Broadcom wireless adapter in it which imples network
won't function first time up, but I'm a registered Linuxant customer, so
after booting (if I could boot) I would install the driver, but I can't get
that far.

Lspci shows mostly genuine Intel stuff:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub
Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
Controller#1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
Controller#2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev
02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Modem Controller
(rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX Go
5600] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller
(rev 02)
02:01.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller
02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000
Controller (PHY/Link)
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless
LAN Controller (rev 02) 


The few special items out there don't seem to be of any consequence (at
least, 4 other distros don't care)

Oddly, Knoppix boots and runs... >shrug<.

No matter, I am up and cruising at this point.

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Datatrac, Inc
770.552.3866 x2494 
*****************
> su -
Password:
# cat /dev/flood > /dev/earth
# rdev noah+beasts
# dd if=noah+beasts of=/dev/earth




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Barry Hawkins
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:55 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Debian install trouble with HP Pavillion laptop (was 
> Re: [ale] Distroquestion...)
> 
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> Jerald Sheets wrote:
> | LOL!
> |
> | It won't run on an HP Pavillion zd7020US 17" laptop.
> |
> | I could understand if it would load up and a bunch of 
> drvers would fail,
> | but this puppy segfaults right after the kernel load and before it
> | starts mounting filesystems...both in sinle and multi-user modes.
> |
> | I really wanted to run it, but it wouldn't run.
> |
> | FC3 wound up being my landing pad.
> |
> | --Jerald
> [...]
> What install method did you use and which Debian version did 
> you try?  I
> find your results quite surprising.  I don't know anything about the
> hardware specs on your unit; is there anything 
> special/unusual about it?
> 
> - --
> Barry Hawkins
> All Things Computed
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> 
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