This problem booting tips me off to one problem I've run into on older PCs with newer distros. I was a frequent user of DSL on a laptop until a new version came out and it wouldn't boot. I skipped a version or two and then came back. It turns out that a lot of people had a problem. I don't recall the exact reason, but now they release two .iso files and the one that works has syslinux in the title and it has something to do with how the kernel is bootstrapped. Can someone else explain?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack</b> <quiet_celt> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:<br><br>> Sounds to me like you may have CD burner problems<br>> or possibly many bad<br>> downloads. If I were you, I'd check MD5 sums on<br>> your .iso image
<br>> downloads. Also, if you are talking about hardware<br>> issues with your<br>> laptop...<br>That was my first thought, but it only happens with<br>Ubuntu family of distros. Whereas, the odd thing is,<br>that I have my best success with the *buntu distros
<br>on laptops.<br><br><br><br>> Does anyone have apt-get update/upgrade called in a cron job to stay up to<br>> date?<br>I've considered it, but have decided I like to see<br>what is going to upgrade before doing it (especially since,
<br>I have OpenOffice apt-pinned so that I can use Mozilla<br>addresses as a data source). Although, the<br>update part is a good idea.<br></blockquote></div><br>