8.0-BETA 3 has problems

[Saifi Khan]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Friday 28 August 2009 7:43:02 am Saifi Khan wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2009-08-27 15:39, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > > > 8.0 beta3 DVD does NOT boot up on my Compaq C301 TU laptop too !
> > > > 
> > > > On another identical Compaq C301 TU laptop, 8.0 beta2 DVD and CD
> > > > boots up fine. In fact thats how i'm writing this mail.
> > > 
> > > Please supply error messages and/or any other relevant information,
> > > which might help to solve this issue.
> > > 
> > 
> > Further to my previous mail, here is some more information
> > for the same Compaq laptop hardware:
> 
> I suspect the ISO image might be corrupted actually.  None of the boot code 
> has changed since BETA2.
> 

The checksum shows up fine.
Just to be doubly sure on the media side, i wrote another DVD as well.

Why the boot loader is not found, is surprising.

On the Beta 3, boot only disk, the response is
 'relocating the boot loader'

What is this supposed to mean ?


thanks
Saifi.