On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:30:38 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:27 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell > wrote: > >> On 2010-01-12 at 12:23:49 -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: >> > Hi, All I have a debian live cd which starts to boot. I get the >> > ISOLINUX 3.71 Debian-2008-9-06 Copyright notice. Then it just hangs- >> > cd active. Disk is debian-live-502-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso MD5 sums >> > check out...Cd is on-top in bios boot priority. Others, sysrescucd, >> > Ubuntu, Debian testing net-installer all boot fine. I have tried >> > other RW disks. 'may try CD-R disk if no one has a helping guess... >> >> You haven't said what your hardware is, and this is just a wild guess. >> But I have an old laptop which frequently hangs on cold boot from CD >> (i.e. boot from power-on). Warm boot from an already running operating >> system (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) works fine. Obviously, it's possible there's >> something wrong with the image or with that particular burn of the >> image. But try warm booting the Debian Live CD after booting something >> else first. In fact, try warm booting from the hang of the cold boot. >> That is one possibility. In the case of my laptop, the cold boot from >> CD problem appears to be a BIOS bug. >> >> >> > Stephen: > Thanks for the reply. My hardware is a Supermicro X7DAL-E M/B
Uh... do not tell me more :-) Just burn a CD-R and you're done. Gretings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
