Bug 26842

Summary:	6.0.1RC4 DVD doesn't boot on an old Toshiba
Product:	Simply Linux	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Mikhail Efremov <sem>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Andrey Cherepanov <cas>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.0
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2012-01-21 21:33:47 MSK

ftp://beta.altlinux.org/p6/simply/altlinux-6.0.1_rc4-simply-i586-ru-install-dvd5.iso , ftp://beta.altlinux.org/p6/simply/altlinux-6.0.1_rc3-simply-i586-ru-install-dvd5.iso for a reason unknown to me doesn't boot on an old Toshiba portege laptop...

although the older DVD with 6.0.1RC2 (of 2011/10/20) does boot.

ftp://beta.altlinux.org/p6/simply/altlinux-6.0.1_rc4-simply-i586-ru-live-cd.iso also does boot on this computer.

It tries to read the DVD, and nothing appears on the black screen. Then the computer proceeds to other boot methods.

I'm not sure: perhaps, it's not an RC4 vs RC2 problem, but the reason is that the RC2 is recorded onto a DVD+R whereas I have recorded the RC4 and RC3 images onto DVD-Rs. I shall test this.

Comment 1 Mikhail Efremov 2017-04-13 21:06:16 MSK

Images are builded with different tools nowaday. hopefully the issue is not
exist now.