> I tried booting 9atom; it failed with the same error, then printed > random garbage across the screen. > > I'll try poking around with it to see where it crashes once I have an > install to build from on my other computer. > > I'll try poking around with it to see where it crashes once I have an > install to build from on my other computer.
any information you could get would be great. does it happen to print out a pc or other identifiable info? > If I take the 2008 bootloader, can it boot a modern kernel? yes. - erik