System freeze when install Ubuntu Server 6.06

Bug #51020 reported by Gianluca
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Brian Murray

Bug Description

I try to install Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS on an Old Ibm Machine, but the system freeze befote the boot menu.

After SCSI CD-ROM boot the system freeze before the boot menu
I can only see this line:
"ISOLINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
Loading..."
With a blinking cursor, but no response from keyboard

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Ibm Pc Server 315 (this system works well with ubuntu server 5.10)
- 200 Mhz processor
- 128 Mb ram

Technical Description
The Server 315 has the following features:
• A 180 MHz or 200 MHz Pentium Pro processor with a 16 KB internal L1
cache and an integrated 256 KB L2 write-back cache
• Standard 32 MB EDO ECC DIMM, expansion to 512 MB
• Four 32-bit PCI slots, two ISA slots, and one combination slot
• Ultra Wide SCSI PCI Adapter
• Six total drive bays — two 5.25-inch half-high and four 3.5-inch slim-high bays
• SVGA PCI adapter with 1 MB video memory
 Copyright IBM Corp. 1996 1997 141
This soft copy for use by IBM employees only.
• An 8X SCSI CD-ROM drive
• 1.44 MB floppy diskette drive
• Two 9-pin high-speed serial ports (16550A) and one bidirectional parallel port
(EPP, ECP)
• One USB port, 12 Mbps, supports 127 devices
• Infrared port, IrDA 1.1, 115 Kbps or 1.15 Mbps
• Keyboard and mouse
• A 2.1 GB Ultra SCSI hard drive is standard on the model 8638-PSV and a 4.33
GB Ultra SCSI hard drive is standard on the model 8638-PSW.
• A 100/10 Mbps Etherjet PCI adapter is standard on the models 8639-PSV and
8638-PSW. For more information about the Etherjet adapter see 26.3, “100/10
EtherJet PCI Adapter” on page 253.

Revision history for this message
Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. Is this still a problem in Edgy?

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This is a kernel problem.

Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.15:
assignee: nobody → brian-murray
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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