On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:27 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> On 2010-01-12 at 12:23:49 -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, All I have a debian live cd which starts to boot. I get the > > ISOLINUX 3.71 Debian-2008-9-06 Copyright notice. Then it just hangs- > > cd active. Disk is debian-live-502-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso MD5 > > sums check out...Cd is on-top in bios boot priority. Others, > > sysrescucd, Ubuntu, Debian testing net-installer all boot fine. I > > have tried other RW disks. 'may try CD-R disk if no one has a > > helping guess... > > You haven't said what your hardware is, and this is just a wild guess. > But I have an old laptop which frequently hangs on cold boot from CD > (i.e. boot from power-on). Warm boot from an already running > operating system (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) works fine. Obviously, it's > possible there's something wrong with the image or with that > particular burn of the image. But try warm booting the Debian Live CD > after booting something else first. In fact, try warm booting from > the hang of the cold boot. That is one possibility. In the case of > my laptop, the cold boot from CD problem appears to be a BIOS bug. > > Stephen: Thanks for the reply. My hardware is a Supermicro X7DAL-E M/B a couple of years old. I burned the image using Brasero from an Ubuntu laptop. I tried your suggestion - Warm Boot - deliberately I probably had done it before, without thinking, chasing this.. THX, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org