Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(
On 16 Feb 2008, at 02:59, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Optiplex's have had issues with BIOS incompatibilities (same way
with some Compaq Proliant's). This could be the problem with your
Poweredge.
Well, it currently has Red Hat 7.1 installed, and it boots the new
Red Hat and Ubuntu CDs just fine. As for those Proliants, that Debian
CD actually worked just fine on them :-)
From the Debian boot F1 menu select 'boot parameters for special
machines' and read the help. You may need a switch such as
'acpi=off' or 'pci=nomsi'. In other words;
#>boot acpi=off
or,
#>boot pci=nomsi
If I could get that far, I probably wouldn't have posted this :-)
Its not that I have errors on boot, it doesn't boot AT ALL, neither
CD nor floppy.
I do not know if there is an archived BIOS update at Dell for your
hardware, but this may be necessary as well.
Dell and HP have claimed Linux compatibility over the years. Their
statements are somewhat optimisitic.
This one came with Red Hat preinstalled, so no problems in that
department (yet).
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