On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 21:30, Rick Green wrote:
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!
So... has anyone gotten this figured out? Just fer grins, I d'loaded the iso and burned it, with k3b and it boots and runs fine so it looks like it is system dependent. I thought perhaps there might be iso file corruption during download er sump'n, but that doesn't appear to be the case.... at least not on this system. I do have to add "apic" as a boot paramaneter to grub on my system to force IRQ mapping, but other than that, it works. -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333