Greetings, On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/11/2011 06:56 PM, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: >>> Some old BIOSes are unhappy booting iso-hybrid. In that case, build and >>> use usb-hdd images instead. >> >> Not so old indeed, the laptop is less than 2 years old. That's sad news, >> this means we cannot use iso-hybrid to replace usb images on our website >> if we don't want to have many people complaining. > > I don't understand why it's failing in that case. I have not encountered > *any* such recent machine that fails in the way you described. So I > think before giving up on it, we need to understand better why it fails > for you. >
fwiw: I actually have just encountered a set of notebooks procured in 2009 of HP ProBook 4510s that do not like the iso-hybrid on usb or cdrom. They just appear to freeze. If you test with a usb.img (not iso-hybrid) they work fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+p-VY_bK4dGsZEONiDRhhAuAuqakzu8opg=oij9vfhyw68...@mail.gmail.com
