sounder CD 6 reboots PC

[Matthew Parslow]

> If it's booting the install media, I have to ask: Are you using a CD-RW? I've 
> had issues with certain CD-RW's having issues while reading and either not 
> booting at all, or just failing and resetting. This could also apply to 
> CD-R's, but I've not personally experienced it. In my case I found that CD-RW 
> 16x-24x's (RW speed)  reading in older drives causes big issues.
> 
> If it's after the install and at first kernel boot, then this could be due to 
> any number of issues. Grub afaik will reboot if it cannot load the kernel 
> image properly.
> 
> In either case, if the kernel image decompresses badly (ie: the data produced 
> is invalid, wether it's from a bad disk block, bad read, or bad kernel 
> image), then it can reboot just after it finishes uncompressing the kernel to 
> memory.
> 
> PS: Small world eh?
> 
always small :)
it doesn't install, and no kernel boots - it seems to be crashing when
it tries to change mode (correct me if I'm wrong) to display the zebra
pattern for the bootloader. the drive is a modern-enough pioneer 6x SCSI
DVD and it's burnt onto a conventional CD-R - the drive reads it fine,
given that it boots, I also just tried mounting it in the currently
installed debian system which worked perfectly. I just swapped the gf2mx
for a G400 and got the same result - I'll try the an IDE CDROM later,
I'll find one lying around somewhere (maybe in a dumpster ;)
the motherboard is a GA-7ZXE with KT133A
Cheers,
Matt