Upgrade Woes

[Lowell Gilbert]

Ben Craig <bencraig at yahoo.com> writes:

> I've been running 4.7R on a HP Netserver E60 for some
> time now, however in trying to upgrade this to 4.9R
> I've run into a problem that is unfortunately beyond
> my troubleshooting abilities.
> 
> Using the ISO disc, I've booted up 4.9 and gone
> through the upgrade process successfully.  However,
> once the machine reboots after the CD has been
> removed, the boot process hangs on the following
> stage:
> 
> agp0 <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI Bridge >
> mem0-0xfffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
> 
> Can anyone give me any guideance on what might be
> causing this?

I've had problems on a machine with a buggy AGP implementation.
Try booting your old kernel, installing the kernel source, and
building a kernel without the AGP module.

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