On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:59:15PM +1000, David wrote:
> I've just aquired a Dell Inspiron 4000 and found that Woody CD1 won't
> boot. I've managed to get it to boot from another Distro, and I wondered
> if anyone knows why the Woody wouldn't. I've used that same CD to install
> about 3 other systems.
Some systems just aren't supported by isolinux (the minimal boot loader
which, from memory, the woody CDs use), for various reasons. It's mostly
laptops I've had the trouble with, too[1], but I've had some desktop-type
machines refuse to talk to it, as well. The exact cause isn't clear, it
just gets some point through the bootstrap sequence and either hangs or
spontaneously reboots.
Usually booting off the floppies does the job.
- Matt
[1] My main lapdog complains about the block size not being right, but only
after sitting around doing *nothing* for several minutes. I thought that
the boot CDs didn't work at all, until one day when I left the machine
running after trying to boot one of the CDs, I came back and it was
working...
--
"People aren't smart enough to write thread-safe code."
-- Rasmus Lehdorf, LCA 2004
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