[Gllug] Getting Debian Etch to run on an old (EPIA 800) Mini-ITX

[Martin A. Brooks]

John Winters wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
>>
>>    Have you sent a bug report? The current schedule is shown as (final?)
>> fixes to be available ready for RC2 release March 19 2007
>
> No.  I'm not sure it's reasonable to send in a bug report which would 
> consist of little more than "Etch won't install on my machine".  I 
> feel I need to accumulate some clues as to what is wrong first, but 
> I've run out of ideas.  The thing now re-boots so fast that I don't 
> have time to do any diagnosis at all.

I seem to recall there's a magic kernel flag that will slow down the 
text output to any arbitrary rate.  Alternatively, if you use grub and 
have a serial cable, add "**console=ttyS0,9600" to your kernel's parameters.
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