On 1/13/06, Eric Peterson <srcfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does this sound right?
>
>  That's pretty much it.  You can boot a live CD that works on the laptop to figure out which module you need.  Once you've determine the right module, add it to /etc/modules and use mkinitrd to include it in a new initrd image.
>
>  This is a really annoying part of installing debian on some systems, i.e. the installer works fine, but your newly booted system won't!  Oh well, in my opinion it's well worth it once it's up and running.
>
>  -Eric
>
>

Thanks for the info guys. I ended up going with the Debian test as I
did not really need stable (I don't think anyway). Debian test seemed
to work fine...