Bug#554493: booting the stable installer via pxe leeds to a black screen
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Maelvon HAWK wrote:
> Wanted to install a stable Debian version on a Vaio (PCG-GRT816S) with
> XPE and a netboot, I've been faced to a similar bug as #497212!
>
> The screen turn black!
When exactly does it turn black? After you boot the installer from the
syslinux menu, or does the syslinux menu not show? I'll assume the last.
The problem could be version difference between different syslinux files.
See the last comment in #497212:
<quote>
I ran into this one a while ago and forgot to post the solution, which is
that you have to make sure that you are netbooting a 'pxelinux.0' which at
least as new as the version of 'vesamenu.c32'. It seems that the changes
to pxelinux.0 in syslinux are back-compatible with earlier copies of
vesamenu.c32, but not the other way round. Simply upgrade to pxelinux.0
from the Lenny images as well and the problem is fixed :-)
</quote>
Cheers,
FJP
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