[issue569] boot fails on grml 2008.11-rc1 on a Toshiba Portege R600-101

[Darshaka Pathirana]

New submission from Darshaka Pathirana <dpat at syn-net.org>:

Hi,

grml 2008.11-rc1 (on CD) fails to boot on a Toshiba Portege R600-101[1].

Similar to issue348 bootloader (syslinux) is shown, kernel and
initrd are also beeing loaded but screen keeps blank after that.

Unfortunatly I had no time to debug that problem intensivly but can
tell you that Kubuntu 8.10-alternate (on CD) and gparted Live (on USB)
(built after [2]) were able to boot flawlessly.

I suspect it has something to do with the syslinux-version as I
imagine to have seen different versions on each of this boot-mediums
(whereas grml seemed to use the oldest version).

I don't know if you consinder this one release-critical but really
would to see this issue fixed as I really would be a pitty if I could
not use grml on machines like these... I would be glad to help
wherever I can.

Greetings,
 - Darsha

[1] http://tinyurl.com/5lqfg8
[2] http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php

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title: boot fails on grml 2008.11-rc1 on a Toshiba Portege R600-101

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