5.2.1-RC iso won't boot

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:
> > Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a
> > different disc, in case it was corrupted? :)
>
> No, I didn't upgrade the BIOS, and IIRC there's no update available.
>
> Of course I thought I might have gotten a coaster :-), but I've tried
> 5.2-R, 5.2-R miniinst, and 5.2.1-RC, all of them show the same behaviour
> on at least three machines of the same kind.  As stated, the 5.1 iso boots
> fine.
>
> We have gotten around by booting from a 5.1 CD and then switching to a 5.2
> CD, but this isn't really elegant. :-)

This sounds similar to a problem I was seeing with an MSI motherboard. I
also worked around it in the same way, although later discovered that a
BIOS update was available which did fix it. THis motherboard was
manufactured over a year ago, however.

Try booting a -CURRENT CD, I seem to remember a fix going into the loader
recently to fix some register trashing or something. If it works, re@ may
be interested to hear about it during the preperation for 5.2.1...

Gavin