Re: Can't boot live DVD Debian 6, KDE, 1GB

[Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>]

On 03/21/2011 02:18 PM, dave boland wrote:
> NEVER EVER hang the system because one sub-system is not responding.
> Seems like good advice for Debian (or the kernel).

live-boot, albeit pretty crude, doesn't care about that.. if the kernel
hangs, the whole system hangs, there's nothing we can do about that.

> That said, I will check the drive jumpers as soon as I have an hour
> (allow for things that just happen).  However, this should not be needed
> because Debian 5 and everything based on it still boots just fine. 
> Thus, I doubt that the jumper is the proximate cause of the boot
> problem.

in a perfect world, any newer version of a piece of software would not
have regressions or new bugs. however, with any complex software.. just
because an older version of the kernel did interact in a specific way
with hardware doesn't mean that a newer version necessarily does to.

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