Comment 9 for bug 179336
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| Wiktor Wandachowicz (siryes) wrote Re: Hardy alpha 2 CD won't boot | #9 |
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I've seen similar behaviour on a PC at university, so I removed the "splash quiet" options to see the boot messages. Shortly after booting an Alpha-2 hardy-desktop-i386 CD the floppy drive LED turned on, the drive started making noises and lots of floppy I/O errors were displayed. After a while hard drive started moving its heads. After that floppy started moving again, and then the hard drive. This process repeated several times and after that only the BusyBox prompt appeared. After putting a floppy disk inside the drive and rebooting the process was faster, but still stopped at the BusyBox prompt.
On my laptop which obviously doesn't have a floppy drive, the booting process just stuck - no X, no installer, no normal "login:" prompt. I was able, however, to reboot the machine using Alt+Ctrl+Delete.
I checked the CD and the MD5 checksums match. Previously other LiveCD's worked, Feisty, PCLinuxOS, Mint, OpenSUSE, Etch. It's only the Hardy CD that's broken at the moment.
What information would you like to receive to diagnose this problem? Unluckily, I'd be able to get at the problematic university machine on Monday 14th.