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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

regards,
le

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