debian install problem

I'm having trouble getting Debian sarge installed on one of my computers, wondering if you all have any ideas...

- computer: biostar m5ata motherboard, 192mb ram, 1.1gb Conner Peripherals HD, cd-rom, floppy, S3 Virge PCI video card, 3Com network PCI card, and a usb 1.1 PCI card
- downloaded debian net-install cd, it booted and the partition/install process went fine
- after initial reboot, boot process gets to a message that reads something like "assuming 33Mhz (or something like that) bus speed for IDE (something something) override with idebus=xx" and then it reboots

the kernel boot from the cd worked fine; any ideas on what to do?

Are you using a PCI HDD controller? I remember having a bitch of a time getting anything but BSD or Windows installed on an old Gateway that used one, Linux/Plan 9 would get to detecting the HDD, then freak the fuck out. Except one distro that just said it couldn't find any HDDs.