Jon,
I thinking it might be a frame buffer problem. If it is, then you would
get the same behavior if you brought over the SL 4.4 install CD's.
What if you tried giving the --nofb option at the command line.
But then again, I don't know if that's available on the live cd
Troy
p.s. Or I could be completely off.
Jon Peatfield wrote:
Today I was over at a testing session to try out a variety of vendors
desktop machines which we are considering.
Since I wanted to know which versions of Linux (most specfically SL)
might run on them I took over a handful of CDs including:
SL308 install disk1 (i386)
SL308 install disk1 (x86_64)
SL44 livecd (i386)
SL44 livecd (x86_64)
SL5alpha livecd (i386)
I took the SL308 install disks because there arn't livecd images :-)
On most systems I looked at I got the expected behaviour -- either the
kernels/system recognised enough hardware to work or didn't.
However on the two Dell GX745 machines (different cases) systems, all
the livecd versions failed before even loading the kernels. When
booting from the CDs it never got as far as the ISOLINUX prompt and just
rebooted the machine right away (if it displayed anything it did so too
briefly to see).
I should add that the same CDs worked ok on several other boxes
including a Dell GX740 though the livecd stuff failed to find the CD
device on that machine...
Back with the GX745 boxes I could boot from other CDs including the
SL308 install disks without problems (not that SL3 supports SATA CD
drives so I can't get very far -- but the kernel etc get loaded fine).
I'll try again at some point with SL44/SL5 install disks, but I didn't
have those with me today.
Is there something odd about the GX745 which makes the livecd images
behave this way? Is there something odd about the way that livecd
images are set up or does it use an old (or too new) version of isolinux
perhaps?
-- Jon
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