Bug#415992: Re2: Bug#415992: Boot floppy fails to load initrd.gz (Etch)

[sferriol <sylvain.ferriol@imag.fr>]

Ilya A. Naydov wrote:
> I've tried this boot floppy on another PC (Desktop, Intel-based,
> Celeron)... It works well... So, it's not due to bad floppy...
>
> If the latest weekly build contain RC2 installer then I used RC2
> installer... :-)
the rc2 images are in:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/

> Loading linux.....................
> Loading initrd.gz.... (four dots, .gz is completly loaded in RAMdrive)
i just try with an old dell latitude CP M233ST (pentium) and it works
> then it should start kernel, but it seems that it couldn't, I don't
> know why... Can it be kernel2.6 incompatibility?..
i'm not a kernel expert but can you play with bios options and kernel 
params (like acpi,...) at boot prompt
> I took boot floppy from 3.1r0 (I think it is not RC2) and it works
> well on this very old laptop...

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