Mike> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Mike> wrote: >> It failed to boot an IBM Aptiva 2161-C8E desktop with a >> 1/19/1997 BIOS. This 166Mhz Pentium box has been my trusty >> machine for 5 years, and boots the potato r3 CD and also >> another woody netinst ISO (the one
Mike> Well, I guess the question is do we want to support new Mike> machines or old machines; it doesn't seem that we can do Mike> both. (I'd vote for the former because we need to move Mike> forward, and it's not like we're removing the floppy boot Mike> option.) No disagreement there. I don't mind if my old PC doesn't boot off the first CD, and I'm all for better support for new hardware. The issue I wanted to highlight was that a bf 3.0.19 based netinst ISO works great on this machine(http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst) with all the syslinux features (I can choose a kernel, hit F3 for help, etc.). However, the image Raphael requested testing for does not. What'd done differently? I'm not boot expert, but it seems possible that a small change might make this CD more usable on a wider range of machines (since I have found at least on syslinux based CD that does work). My machine is old, but not "unmodern" - it's got PCI and USB support, has booted every other CD I've ever come across, and has the right horse power to make a good Linux machine. I'm at work and I can't look at my CD, so if I got some detail wrong don't shoot me. Cheers from the ingoramus! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]