Bug#299169: Sarge i386 netinst CD fails to boot
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: downloaded on 2005-03-12 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Could not obtain...
Date: 12 Mar 2005 21:00 NZDT
Method: Tried to boot from Sarge netinst CD in CDrom drive setup as
Master on IDE Secondary Channel
Machine: Generic Beige Box
Processor: Intel Celeron
Memory: 512MD SDRAM
Root Device: IDE HDD on Primary IDE channel
Root Size/partition table: N/A
Output of lspci and lspci -n: N/A
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The CD does not boot. The BIOS prompt comes up as follows
Boot from CD:
Then after a few seconds
Boot from CD: Failure...
Other similar bootable CDs (Ubuntu 4.10 Live/Install CD) boot fine.
Motherboard: MSI MS-6526
BIOS Version Strings:
Award Bios 6.00PG
10/22/2002-i845G-6A69VM4VC-00
W6526IMS V3.4 102202 13:39:12
Mounting the .iso via loopback to check md5sums indicates everything is OK
argon:/mnt# md5sum -cv md5sum.txt 2>&1 | grep -v "OK"
argon:/mnt#
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