Intrepid (and Hardy) install CD's fail to boot on Thinkpad

[Richard Appleby]

I downloaded the 7th October daily build ISO of Intrepid, checked the md5sum, burned it to disk, and tried to boot. I then got the following error:

ISOLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 isolinux:
Cannot boot from this CD. Please try a BIOS update.

So, I went back to a Hardy install CD, hoping to network-upgrade. And I got exactly the same thing (with a different date on the message, obviously). In the end I had to go back to a Gutsy install CD to get a CD that was bootable. This is on a Thinkpad T60P (model 2007-AE7) with a Matsushita UJ-842 multi-format DVD writer. The Thinkpad is running the latest available BIOS (v 2.22, dated April 2008).

What additional information do you need me to provide to help to debug this?

[Richard Appleby (disposable01)]

Reconfirmed with the Intrepid Ibex i386 alternate install CD. No change in symptoms; ISOLinux loads from the MBR, but fails to start the Intrepid Installer. To install Intrepid on my (2 year old) laptop, I currently have to install Gutsy, and network upgrade to Hardy and then Intrepid :(

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Hardy has reached end of life. Have you had this problem on 12.04 or later?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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