I have now experienced problems with two different computers using old
versions of Phoenix BIOS, when booting the Debian 2.1 rescue floppy. One
was a Packard Bell system at a free Linux Install our LUG did a couple
months ago... the other is a Gateway system. Both 486's.
It gets give the SYSLINUX prompt, asks you to hit ENTER, and upon doing so,
it freezes, saying, I believe, "Loading Linux..."
A RedHat floppy on both systems worked fine.
At the Install a couple months ago, we ended up doing a custom boot from a
DOS floppy, using LOADLIN.... But certianly there's a better way.
What is it with the Debian Rescue disk that doesn't like the Phoenix BIOSes,
but that RedHat gets along just fine?
Is there a newer (potato?) or older (hamm or bo?) boot disk that is known to
work with these BIOSes?
Is this an as-of-yet unreported problem that should be submitted as a bug
somewhere?
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