On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:19:12AM +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote: >Package: cdrom >Severity: important > > >When attempting to boot from CD (tried 6.0.4 Live and 6.0.5 netinst), >I get the ISOLINUX line, followed by 'aborted.', and then the 'boot:' prompt. > >Tried various kernels (expert and rescue among others). 'rescue' brings up >Loading /install.386/vmlinuz, aborted, but that is all. > >My impression is that the kernel is not loaded at all, it is isolinux >that fails, considering a) that there is no indication of the Linux kernel >starting, and b) that I get dropped back to the 'boot:' prompt. > >The system is a Pentium II 450 MHz, with a RIVA TNT graphics card (AGP 2x), >with 384 megabytes of RAM. The computer is from 1998. > >The CD's themselves have been tried in two other machines with no problems.
It's quite possibly the video mode switch that's failing. Try adding "vga=normal" as a kernel parameter too and see if that helps. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
