[Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

[Sascha Silbe]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:38:05AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:

>> I've found an ordinary desktop PC (with Phoenix Award BIOS 6.00PG) 
>> that
>> won't boot off a USB stick created by livecd-tools-024 with syslinux
>> (tested both versions 3.75 and 3.81).
>>
>> The boot process drops to the "boot:" prompt with an error message:
>>
>>   could not find kernel image: linux
If it already gets to this stage, the new partition setup won't help.

>> The same USB stick boots fine on any other computer I could find.
Very strange and unfortunately out of my area of knowledge.
One last idea: Have you tried other USB sticks yet? Perhaps it's a 
hardware incompatibility.

>> Does it seem like a syslinux bug?  And if turns out to be a known 
>> BIOS
>> bug, is there a good workaround?
FWIW, the machine (Tyan S2495 based) I'm doing some USB stick testing on 
also claims to be Phone Award BIOS 6.00PG and it works fine (albeit 
slow).

CU Sascha

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