Bug#684948: cdrom: isolinux fails to load kernel
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:19:12AM +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
>Package: cdrom
>Severity: important
>
>
>When attempting to boot from CD (tried 6.0.4 Live and 6.0.5 netinst),
>I get the ISOLINUX line, followed by 'aborted.', and then the 'boot:' prompt.
>
>Tried various kernels (expert and rescue among others). 'rescue' brings up
>Loading /install.386/vmlinuz, aborted, but that is all.
>
>My impression is that the kernel is not loaded at all, it is isolinux
>that fails, considering a) that there is no indication of the Linux kernel
>starting, and b) that I get dropped back to the 'boot:' prompt.
>
>The system is a Pentium II 450 MHz, with a RIVA TNT graphics card (AGP 2x),
>with 384 megabytes of RAM. The computer is from 1998.
>
>The CD's themselves have been tried in two other machines with no problems.
It's quite possibly the video mode switch that's failing. Try adding
"vga=normal" as a kernel parameter too and see if that helps.
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