FS#19625 - 2010.05 Snapshots regression: not bootable on HP Probook 5310m (USB flashdisk install)
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Opened by LX (gimmeapill) - Friday, 28 May 2010, 11:57 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 30 July 2011, 20:39 GMT
Opened by LX (gimmeapill) - Friday, 28 May 2010, 11:57 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 30 July 2011, 20:39 GMT
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The 2010.05 snapshots freeze one of my notebooks (I tried
i686, x64, dual, for core and netinst).
The problematic machine is an HP Probook 5310m: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13394_div/13394_div.HTML when I plug in the USB flashdisk, it simply cause a complete lockup (whether or not an operating system is already running), and the computer has to be reset with the power button. The led on the flashdisk blinks like if there was a disk access, but at this stage the keyboard doesn't respond anymore. I cannot get any trace as there is no operating system installed I don't think it is an installation problem on my side, as the 2010.05 medias work fine on the other machines I tried them on (with the same USB flasdisk). And I cannot try to boot from CD either as this model doesn't have any optical drive. On the other hand, the 2009.08 installation medias worked fine on this machine, and the Arch Linux installation didn't cause any particular problem. So this really makes me think that one of the changes with the new installation medias is incompatible with the BIOS of this machine. The only particularity that I can think of that could be relevant to the issue is that this model has a traditional BIOS but can also boot from an EFI partition, as decribed in the HP support document below: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/CoreRedirect.jsp?redirectReason=DocIndexPDF&prodSeriesId=4021356&targetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fbizsupport1.austin.hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fc01951773%2Fc01951773.pdf |
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Closed by Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 20:39 GMT
Reason for closing: No response
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 20:39 GMT
Reason for closing: No response
Thanks.
[#1] http://alberich.archlinux.org/misc/testiso/
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=1
$ mkfs.vfat test.img
$ syslinux test.img
:( Can you contact syslinux maintainer? Maybe can debug this issue a bit?
I made the test and no, even with the latest syslinux (4.01) they still don't boot.
(I could reproduce also with the Debian Live USB creation procedure http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en)
But there's still one thing I don't understand: why were the old (.img) installation medias working then? was it because of an older syslinux version?
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Contact