Jon Peatfield wrote:
We don't get as far as anything which resembles a 'command-line', the
system reset itself really really early -- like during the read of the
CD boot-sectors or maybe while ISOLINUX starting up. It certainly
doesn't display the livecd splash screen...
Sadly I can only try these boxes by going to a room 2 miles away which
is only open during office hours, or I'd have done more tests already...
I'd planned to take over the install disk isos for the current 5rolling,
but having checked there arn't any (yet?). Since I can't PXE boot these
machines is there an obvious way to get far enough into the install to
check if it detects all the hardware? Would the images in
5rolling/{i386,x86_64}/images/boot.iso be much use?
BTW this reminds me that the SL44 installer (for PXE anyway) crashes
when it detects certain models of ATI cards (X600 on Dell GX620 systems
for example). Obviously the X server thinks it can cope but causes the
system to freeze. Tricking it into using the VESA driver fixes it for
me...
I will probably break some netiquette trying to help. Oh well, CentOS 5 has been released,
so perhaps you may try it as a precursor to SL5.
