On Monday 04 December 2006 18:16, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > |--==> Frans Pop writes: > FP> On Monday 04 December 2006 14:02, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > >>both i386 and amd64 images of the latest daily builds will fail > >>booting (the BIOS try to boot from CDROM, but fails and skips it) > >>on this CDROM: > > FP> How and where exactly does it fail? > > It simply tries to boot from the CD-ROM reader (I can see the led > flashing), but it fails and skip to the next device (hard disk), as > for example an audio CD disk with no boot sector was inserted. > > FP> Any messages at all? > > No messages. > > FP> Do you get the initial boot splash screen? > > No. > > FP> Any BIOS options you can try changing? > > I'm not sure, replacing the SATA CD-ROM with a IDE one, makes d-i > happy and boot painlessly. I don't know exactly if there something to > set in the BIOS.. has somebody some experience here? > > FP> Does a Sarge installation CD boot correctly (which release did > you try)? > > I did test it, but I'll check 3.1r4 out. > > FP> Does an Etch RC1 installation CD boot correctly? > > No, it fails as well, same behaviour. OK. These answers probably make it an syslinux issue rather than a kernel issue. Moving this thread to the debian-cd list. Please follow up there from now on (Reply-to set). Cheers, FJP
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