Plop freezes when trying to boot anything (even local drives)

Started by sebastian, October 17, 2011, 15:00:53 PM

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sebastian

Hello,

I'm trying to boot Linux from a USB Flash Drive, while my BIOS supports only USB Floppy and IDE CD (no DVD) Booting.

Plop (5.0.13) starts fine from both CD or USB Floppy, but it will freeze no matter what I try to boot, even my local HDD partitions:

...
checking boot sector
found valid boot signature

->freeze (Windows NTFS and FreeBSD Partitions on IDE Disk)

Booting from USB:
...
port 3: device connected
mass
storage device
loading boot sector...

->freeze

from CD (i.e. plop re-boot itself):
...
wating for the drive...
loading boot sector...

->freeze

Is there anything more I could try, some debug output etc.?

It's a Gericom/Uniwill N251S5 laptop with AMIBIOS EC591, Version 1.06GM (from ~2003, latest available from Gericom... ::))

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Sebastian

SoWhat

I have identical problem!

My Laptop is Asus M2400N from 2004. I would really like to help in solving this problem. If I can help somehow, please let me know.

Thank you for your awesome program!