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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot failure
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:03:23
Message-Id: 20011031100323.J10122@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Boot failure by "Rychlik
1 On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:17:21AM +0100, Rychlik, Michael wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I cannot boot build-ix86-1.0_rc6_r10.iso it crashes my machine while
5 > decompressing rescue.gz after a line or so of dots is displayed. The box in
6 > question is an AMD K6/266 in an ASUS P5A mobo. Award BIOS 4.5x. Voodoo 3 and
7 > NE2000. 96Mb od RAM.
8 >
9 > The same CD boots fine elsewhere.
10 >
11 > Is it still possible to build from floppy ?
12
13 We don't have a floppy boot/build method yet. I'm guessing that this is related
14 to your BIOS, since there have been other Award BIOS problems (4.51). But Award
15 probs were supposed to be fixed in the latest isolinux release. You may try
16 updating your BIOS if possible.
17
18 Best Regards,
19
20 --
21 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
22 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
23 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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