Debian

manishsingh4u · 04-11-2006, 09:46 AM

Hello friends,
I am just half-way in installing Debian 3.1 with the netinstall CD (108 mb) on my friend's Compaq Presario Laptop. The base install process is done successfully.
But, when it reboots for further installation, I am getting a lot of errors and finally the computer freezes.

There are a lot of errors and I can't just write all of them here as I can see only the last part on my screen. Anyway, I am writing some "not found" and "can't be loaded" things.

Code:

./pic.agent: line 156 557 Segmentation Fault $MOPEPROB $MODULE >/dev/null 2>&1
i810_audio: can't be loaded
missing kernel or user mode driver i810_audio
<3>i810_rng: RNG not detected

Then after some lines

Code:

i810_rng: can't be loaded
missing kernel or user mode driver

And finally, in the last two lines, I get

Code:

hw_random: can't be loaded
missing kernel or user mode driver

And the computer freezes here. Nothing else works now.

What I guess, it has something to deal with RNG (perhaps random number generation). I don't know to how to fix it. Can anyone help me?

rickh · 04-11-2006, 10:07 AM

Googling "hw_random: can't be loaded" turns up a lot of stuff.

May be related to udev. I would recommend installing testing instead of Sarge. Much better hardware recognition.

manishsingh4u · 04-11-2006, 11:24 AM

I did a lot of googling before and after this post. Tried many things. Still no luck.

manishsingh4u · 04-14-2006, 07:39 PM

After giving my 4 continuous hours of googling and trials, finally I did it. I got my Debian working on this laptop. Well, that's not really tough if u know how to do it. So, if anyone got a same problem, feel free to ask.

Christian Hans · 04-23-2006, 05:40 AM

Sorry my English is not good, i'am German.

First you must boot in bash.
You can do this with Bootflag

init=/bin/bash

as kernel-parameter.
When the system is ready you must remount your root partition
with

mount -n -o remount,rw /

then go to
/etc/hotplug/

Make an entry in /etc/hotplug/blacklist
i810_audio

don't forgett to write the changes.
then write
sync

reboot...
and it run's

Good Luck

Christian Hans

manishsingh4u · 04-23-2006, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christian Hans

mount -n -o remount,rw /

then go to
/etc/hotplug/

Make an entry in /etc/hotplug/blacklist
i810_audio

Thanks. That's what exactly I did to fix it.