Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit :
[SNIP]
> >>>
> >>> then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding
> >>> and a failing kernels (verbose !)
> >>
> >>   I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of
> >>   which fail to boot on the Dell M600.
> >
> > aha !
> >
> > anyway, even with a CDROM, you can boot *verbose* and note where the boot
> > stops (even if there won't be a serial console, write down the blocking
> > device probe)
>
>   Can you shoot me a link to the docs on how to do this?  I haven't been
>   able to find out how.

speaking from memory : just before the kernel starts, you should have the 
*loader* menu (with the ASCII graphics depicting beastie), where you can 
choose between boot options, and option 5 is boot verbose (like 4 is boot 
single)

        TfH
>
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> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
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