User Feedback :: Freeze during boot

Quote (Qwertie @ Jan. 16 2006,17:23)

I don't know what Super Multi means. It's a dual layer 16x with no brand name on the front. Btw, Knoppix might not help you because it's so similar to DSL.

Super Multi I "believe" refers to the fact that it burns and reads both DVD and CD.

Does that fit your drive?

I was hoping someone else might have hit the same freezing problem, and have some answers. It was sooo nice running DSL in embedded mode, I really would like to get the LiveCD to work

Status update: While booting with the Ubuntu Live CD, I realized that for a split second before the graphical boot screen appears, there is a warning message that appears on the screen first. Luckily, the pause key worked and I caught the message:

IOLINUX 2.04 2003-06-16 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it...
isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = EF
Copyright © 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin

For what it's worth. Still nobody has any ideas? This message is strange because it's a pretty new computer and it used to work fine with Windows. I can't tell if something changed with the CD drive because I don't recall ever trying to boot from it before, except to install Windows.

You may already have thought of this one, but maybe if you download the dsl-syslinux.iso and burn it to CD it will work for you.

There is only one way to know for sure... try it

Quote (cbagger01 @ Jan. 17 2006,01:11)

You may already have thought of this one, but maybe if you download the dsl-syslinux.iso and burn it to CD it will work for you.

There is only one way to know for sure... try it

Thats what I did. Downloaded dsl-2.1b.iso and burned it to disk, then tried to load it. When I ran it, it froze just after the USB check and it said "Done".

I believe Qwertie did that too - both of us have the freezing issue.

dsl-2.1b-syslinux.iso

is different from

dsl-2.1b.iso

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