Hello David, On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert<d...@treblig.org> wrote: > The machine is an old Pentium 90 machine I use as a firewall; it seems > to be running Etch OK but Lenny is failing very early. > > I'm netbooting it , it loads the pxe image and then I get a corrupt > greeting screen (very blue lines, repeated multiple times with gaps > in - looks like the whole image is maybe what should be one line of pixels > is say 8 deep with black between). Anyway, that turns out to be minor, > hitting the F keys get me the help text and I can load the kernel. > > I see it load and decompress the kernel then I see: > > Parsing ELF done > <another line of text here that disappears too quickly> > > and then it reboots to the BIOS. > That's repeatable. I think the same behaviour happened when I tried to run > the USB/hard drive > boot image off a partition on the hard disc, but I can't repeat that test now.
Since you have a working system, it would be nice to test if it works installing the kernel from lenny. Is it possible for you to give a try to it? Doing it we can be sure it is a kernel issue and reassign it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
