On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:42:19 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: >> I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in >> the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. > >I don't have a suitable machine to try it on, but amd64 boot loader is >now able to boot an i386 kernel, and I suspect (but am not certain) that >the boot loader itself may be able to run on either arch. > >So, it may be worth someone with an affected machine trying to boot >CD 2 and if the boot loader does start up, pause it (just hit space or >something), swap to CD 1, and continue by typing 'boot'. > The CD2 does get to where it is about to boot, stops on a space but never accepts any variation of all possible /4.2/i386/bsd.rd combinations.
Nice try (and I agreed it was worth a try) but no cigar... Regards, Rod >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
