Re: Bug#220048: 220048:Cannot boot from CD
On 2003-11-17, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>>
>> I'am afraid it is not that problem, as I can boot both ISOLINUX and
>> SYSLINUX CD's correctly, but not beta-1 sarge-i386-netinst.
>
> Syslinux is the more robust of the two and was just asking for a test
> to make sure it does work.
>
> That the beta-1 isolinux does not work is strange and might need some
> debugging and auditing the chnages between woody and beta-1 isolinux
> sources.
The woody CD's I tried where SYSLINUX not ISOLINUX. The older
sarge-i386-netinst that do work are ISOLINUX. And it looks like the
same version (1.75) as the beta-1 which doesn't work.
> I don't believe its the cdrom. Would be real strange if the cd
> contents would affect cdrom capabilities. The problem is the
> respective bios of the system.
On the ASUS mainboard where it doesn't work there is a AWARD BIOS, and
on the Sony notebook where it does work, there was a Phoenix BIOS.
Maybe we should just port LinuxBIOS to all possible mainboards, as
non-free BIOS'es are crap, and are not DSFG free either.
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