On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:00:43 +0300 Mikhail Maksimov <mcwil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone. > > Natty Alpha3 boots normally on the box in question, so I guess the problem > was caused by some unidentified minor flaw in the build process for alphas > 1&2, silently corrected by the new automated build process for > alpha-20110228 and alpha3. > > Aftermath: > > - the CD with all the four alphas (1, 2, 3 and 20110228) are perfectly > readable on both my "main" machine (the one where the discs were burned) > and > "test" box. "dd if=/dev/cdrom.....|md5sum" results are as expected *on > both systems*. > - the main machine boots normally from all the four CDs > - the test box rejects alphas 1&2 (BIOS does not recognize them as > bootable) but boots normally from the other two alphas. > > Thank you all for help. > Glad to see you are now up and running. It would be nice to know what caused the problem but, I doubt we'll ever know such are the vagaries for computers, and not just with Linux. I now have a machine that doesn't recognise Windows 98 & XP boot disks but boots with any Linux distro I throw at it. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
