"Neil J. McRae" writes:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm seeing this problem on a bunch of PeeCees that I recently bought.
> The install kernel boots fine then starts timing out and the machine
> eventually hangs. This starts just after the 
> 
> WARNING: no swap space found, i.e. when the root fs is now fd0a.

Thats the moment just after the kernel has started before init starts,
right? Maybe you are having wacky trouble caused by probes. Try
something like building a custom install kernel with extra cruft
stripped and see if it helps.

> Is there anything that I can do to try and debug this?

Build a custom kernel with ddb?

Perry