Hi, we are considering adding the possibility to boot different flavors of the kernel from the same CD (the first) and we have different means of achieving that. Each has its pros and cons. We need to know if they do work on your machine ... because it depends of the BIOS and it may not work on old machines. (All of this is for the i386 arch only.)
So we provide two ISO images and we expect you to grab them, burn CD with them and try to boot on them (if you wish, you can also install Debian woody with them ... but the test is mainly about the boot procedure). Please send the feedback (ie the answers to the questions included in this mail) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reply-to is set). What is your computer (cpu, how old is it ...) ? What is your BIOS (name and version) ? First method : multiboot with el-torito --------------------------------------- Grab the image from one of these links : http://i386-multiboot.trasno.net/woody-i386-1.raw ftp://i386-multiboot.trasno.net/unofficial-debian-cds/woody-i386-multiboot/woody-i386-1.raw rsync://i386-multiboot.trasno.net/unofficial-debian-cds/woody-i386-multiboot/woody-i386-1.raw Filesize: 625606656 bytes MD5SUM: 253c012ba909075cfe9404117035fcc0 Once you boot on it, you should get a menu proposing 4 choices. First is "idepci" flavor, second is "compact" flavor, third is "bf2.4" flavor and fourth is the default "vanilla" flavor. You may not see the names of the flavor ... but just numbers. If the bios doesn't support the multiboot it may still boot the first flavor by default. Are you able to boot on the CD ? If yes do you see a menu ? If yes what does your menu look like ? If you can't boot on the CD, explain what is happening (booting on the harddisk, locking, ...). Second method : multiboot with isolinux --------------------------------------- Grab the image in one of those sites : http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/woody-i386-1.raw http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/debian-cd/woody-isolinux.iso Filesize: 193921024 bytes MD5SUM: f3126f5f0e54777d0fdabde5735a90be Once you boot on it, you should see a "boot:" prompt typical of syslinux. You can type "linux" (or "idepci"), "bf24", "compact" or "vanilla". You will boot on the corresponding flavor of course. You may also push F3 to get more information about the available flavors. Are you able to boot on the CD ? Do you see the prompt ? If no, what is happening ? Feel free to provide more information if you think that it's worthwhile. Thanks for your help ! PS: More information about the second (isolinux) image is available at : http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200204/msg00067.html -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
