Re: Debian Live hangs on cd boot.
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:30:38 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:27 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell
> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-01-12 at 12:23:49 -0500, Jack Schneider wrote:
>> > Hi, All I have a debian live cd which starts to boot. I get the
>> > ISOLINUX 3.71 Debian-2008-9-06 Copyright notice. Then it just hangs-
>> > cd active. Disk is debian-live-502-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso MD5 sums
>> > check out...Cd is on-top in bios boot priority. Others, sysrescucd,
>> > Ubuntu, Debian testing net-installer all boot fine. I have tried
>> > other RW disks. 'may try CD-R disk if no one has a helping guess...
>>
>> You haven't said what your hardware is, and this is just a wild guess.
>> But I have an old laptop which frequently hangs on cold boot from CD
>> (i.e. boot from power-on). Warm boot from an already running operating
>> system (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) works fine. Obviously, it's possible there's
>> something wrong with the image or with that particular burn of the
>> image. But try warm booting the Debian Live CD after booting something
>> else first. In fact, try warm booting from the hang of the cold boot.
>> That is one possibility. In the case of my laptop, the cold boot from
>> CD problem appears to be a BIOS bug.
>>
>>
>>
> Stephen:
> Thanks for the reply. My hardware is a Supermicro X7DAL-E M/B
Uh... do not tell me more :-)
Just burn a CD-R and you're done.
Gretings,
--
Camaleón
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