install system hangs during boot up

[Martin Konrad]

Hi,
I'm experiencing problems during boot up of my install system. On a VMware ESX 
server the installation works perfectly but on my Intel S3200SH the system 
stops during boot up.
According to the output on the screen the problem seems to be connected 
somehow to the networking system (see [1]). Both machines use Intel 
e1000 cards (VMware a virtual one, the machine that makes the trouble a 
physical one). I googled around for a while and found [2] but this issue is 
quite old.

I tried another (newer) kernel (2.6.35-grml64) instead of the standard 
2.6.32-5-amd64 but the behavior is exactly the same.

Did anyone else run into this problem, too?

Martin

P.S.: I'm trying to install squeeze with FAI 3.4.4. But FAI worked perfectly 
well on this machine when I was installing lenny with FAI 3.2.17 from a lenny 
server.

[1] http://www.martin-konrad.net/fai_boot.jpg
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451855

-- 
Dipl. Phys. Martin Konrad
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Kernphysik
Schlossgartenstr. 9
64289 Darmstadt
Tel: +49-6151-16-5121
Fax: +49-6151-16-4321