Intrepid netboot hangs on Acer Aspire One
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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UNetbootin |
New
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Undecided
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Geza Kovacs | ||
unetbootin (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Intrepid (8.10) netboot (http://
However, if I remove or comment out the following line from pxelinux.
default ubuntu-
it will proceed to load ubuntu-
Package version info (according to version.info file in the netboot.tar.gz):
Debian version: 8.10
Installer build: 20080522ubuntu23
As a comparison, the netboot.tar.gz from Hardy (8.04) (http://
Likely unfixable; disabling vesamenu.c32 globally would mean that all users would be left with a command-line syslinux interface, which would greatly reduce usability, especially for those using ISOs which include numerous menu options. Since I'm not aware of any way to detect hardware which has a broken framebuffer unable to display syslinux, while manually blacklisting each individual computer unable to display a graphical syslinux menu is unfeasible, only perhaps an improvement in syslinux for supporting semi-functional hardware can potentailly fix this.