On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > > > > I've had this problem on several boxen with the 5.2-R iso, and now I see > > > it again with the 5.2.1-RC iso: > > > > > > I try to boot it, it comes to the "Boot from CD" prompt, and as soon as it > > > switches to the loader I see some kind of a registry dump that seems to > > > loop endlessly (I can't really tell what it says because it loops too > > > fast). > > > > > > I had no problems booting a 5.1-R iso, so, was there a change in the > > > loader code? > > > > I forgot to mention: this is a no-name P4 box with an MSI board, the CDROM > > identifies itself as > > > > acd0: CDROM <SR244W> at ata1-master PIO4 > > Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a > different disc, in case it was corrupted? :) No, I didn't upgrade the BIOS, and IIRC there's no update available. Of course I thought I might have gotten a coaster :-), but I've tried 5.2-R, 5.2-R miniinst, and 5.2.1-RC, all of them show the same behaviour on at least three machines of the same kind. As stated, the 5.1 iso boots fine. We have gotten around by booting from a 5.1 CD and then switching to a 5.2 CD, but this isn't really elegant. :-) regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl_at_univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 11:00:43 UTC
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