On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:56:51PM -0400, C. Bronson H. Crothers wrote: > Both the CD and DVD (disk 1) iso (debian linux 6.0.5) images fail to > boot, off their respective media. > > Asus M 3A32 mother board > AMD Phenom X4 9850 64 bit > 8 GB RAM > 250 GB hard drive (previously running lenny). > > During the upgrade to squeeze the disks failed to boot, and now I > have no access to the system at all.
I presume you read the release notes? In particular the section about "Migration of disk drivers from IDS to PATA subsystem"? > > Other boot media work OK (Win 7, Knoppix) from the CD/DVD drive. > > This is NOT a BIOS issue. You've A) downloaded the amd64 and NOT the ia64 CD/DVD and B) checked the MD5SUM of the downloaded image?
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