Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Rick Green <rtgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Frederic Soulier wrote:

> I had the same problem. I burnt the Live 9.1 CD 4 times using K3b, Nero
> & Alcohol 120% with the same result: an unbootable CD on 2 different
> systems. The only way I managed to boot it is to use Smart Boot Manager
> and force the boot from the CD.
>
> I'm glad I'm not alone ;) I was starting to get worried.
> I have a Pioneer DVR-107 on one system (a custom dual P3) and an Asus
> DVD-RW converted to a Pioneer DVD-106 on the other (Dell dimension
> 4100).
> Both systems have no problem booting Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2 (Test
> versions), Mandrake 9.2, Mandrake 10.0, Arch Linux, Gentoo, etc...
>
> If there's a sensible explanation I'd like to hear it :)
>
  I got this explanation from a member of my local LUG:  Some older
BIOS (notably ASUS motherboards for AMD K6-2 processors) will not boot
from a CDROM which contains a 2.88Mb boot floppy image.
  One of my test machines is indeed a K6-2(450), and the other a gateway
with a PII-300.  I tried it on my Dell Latitude Cpt (Celeraon 500) and it
recognized the CD, booted the kernel, but then gave me several
'out-of-memory' errors, a segfault, and finally a kernel panic while it
was still trying to load modules.  I guess 128MB isn't enough to run the
live-eval.
  I hope I have better luck tomorrow when the 9.1pro upgrade is scheduled
to arrive!


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Rick Green

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