Package: syslinux
Version: 2.04-1
Severity: normal
Well, I was about to test d-i today (20040403 images in subdir floppy/acces),
and can't even get the kernel fully loaded:
SYSLINUX prompts for boot options, starts to load
the kernel (dots appear), and suddenly stops with the following
message:
Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue
When I hit some key, the boot begins again, prompting me
for kernel options, and hangs at the same position again.
I've tried a lot of things already to make sure I am not
seeing a damaged hardware problem:
* Tried with 6 different floppy disks now, even from two different packs.
* Physically swapped my floppy disk drive to make sure it didn't break
recently. Unfortunately, absolutely the same
effect happens with the "new" floppy ddrive.
The message itself isn't terribly informative, and I'm afraid I reached
a point where I don't know what to try anymore.
I am not particularily good at asm, so reading ldlinux.asm
didn't help me much either.
The machine is Intel Pentium III based with 866 MHZ (so, it's not
brand new, but not terribly old either.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-speakup
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages syslinux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
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