Comment 10 for bug 179336

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Greg T. (gjtbiz) wrote : Re: Hardy alpha 2 CD won't boot

That describes well what I saw (and heard): A lot of thrashing about. Placing a disk in the floppy drive did no good.

You might want to confirm that you were using the 32-bit i386 CD and list your motherboard, graphics card, and CD model, and also state whether you are using any SATA drives (in my case, I boot from a SATA drive and keep my data on an IDE hard drive).