Hi,

I have a "SMC EZ Card 10/100" network adapter, when I install it Linux hangs on the partition check part of the boot.

I have no idea how to sort this, any help would be great.

Thanks

What does your SMZ Network card have to do with your system failing on the partition check at boot time? What kind of drive? Has it done this before or first time failing?
What partition is it failing on and what do you mount that particular partition on? More details please.

I have no idea why the network card would cause the hard drive partition part to hang. The fstab file is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda7 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

Which seems fine.

When I take the card out of my system, Linux will boot, when I plug it in, in both the Debian installer and booting from my normal debian installation, it hangs where it prints "Partition check " and prints out a list of partitions. Knoppix will not run either, it doesn't print anything on the screen except Tux and then it goes no further.

Thanks for any help.

It's an ASUS A7M motherboard, the hard drive is connected via IDE. It is a new card, Linux would boot before I put it in, and Linux has never worked while the card has been in (XP does).

The only thing I can think of then is its definitely a hardware conflict.. maybe when you insert the NIC, its taking over the IRQ or resources that the hard drive uses...