Bug#532144: Lenny Reboot after loading kernel during net install
Hello David,
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert<dave@treblig.org> wrote:
> The machine is an old Pentium 90 machine I use as a firewall; it seems
> to be running Etch OK but Lenny is failing very early.
>
> I'm netbooting it , it loads the pxe image and then I get a corrupt
> greeting screen (very blue lines, repeated multiple times with gaps
> in - looks like the whole image is maybe what should be one line of pixels
> is say 8 deep with black between). Anyway, that turns out to be minor,
> hitting the F keys get me the help text and I can load the kernel.
>
> I see it load and decompress the kernel then I see:
>
> Parsing ELF done
> <another line of text here that disappears too quickly>
>
> and then it reboots to the BIOS.
> That's repeatable. I think the same behaviour happened when I tried to run the USB/hard drive
> boot image off a partition on the hard disc, but I can't repeat that test now.
Since you have a working system, it would be nice to test if it works
installing the kernel from lenny. Is it possible for you to give a try
to it?
Doing it we can be sure it is a kernel issue and reassign it.
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