Re: Debian didn't boot from CD

[Georg Nikodym <georgn@somanetworks.com>]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 00:41:08 +0200
Christian Imhorst <christian.imhorst@gmx.net> wrote:

> I've the Toshiba Tecra 8000 with CD-Rom but without a Floppy. The
> Bootsequenze is, that the Laptop first boot from CD and than from the
> Hard Disk. I'm able to install SuSE Linux from CD and to boot the
> Knoppix-CD, but none of my Debian CDs. I've taken "potato" and
> "woody", but none of them show me an installation screen. And it
> doesn't matter, if the SuSE, Knoppix or Debian CDs were bought, from a
> handbook or self-burned. Why didn't the Debian-CDs want to be
> installed?

I had a similar problem with my Dell i8k.  I had to choose the "vanilla"
option which keeps the system in text mode.

-g

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