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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> > I've had this problem on several boxen with the 5.2-R iso, and now I see
> > it again with the 5.2.1-RC iso:
> >
> > I try to boot it, it comes to the "Boot from CD" prompt, and as soon as it
> > switches to the loader I see some kind of a registry dump that seems to
> > loop endlessly (I can't really tell what it says because it loops too
> > fast).
> >
> > I had no problems booting a 5.1-R iso, so, was there a change in the
> > loader code?
>
> I forgot to mention: this is a no-name P4 box with an MSI board, the CDROM
> identifies itself as
>
> acd0: CDROM <SR244W> at ata1-master PIO4

Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a
different disc, in case it was corrupted? :)

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