User Feedback :: Help! Cannot boot

i am trying DSL on an old P1, 64 MB RAM.
getting "Directory sread fail"

any clues? tried failsafe option, still the same.

it was complaining something about FAT cannot get the signature FSINFO

That is a strange error. Doesn't sound like too many people have heard of it. The only thing I can think of (in my limited knowledge) is, perhaps, that the disk was not burned properly. Did you check it against the md5 when you downloaded it? Have you tried to boot the disk from another machine?

yes, the CD works on another machine. also tried other live-CDs on this machine (eg. knoppix), and it works.

Try booting from the livecd with or without floppy and with this boot command:

failsafe noswap nofstab norestore

and see if you get somewhere.

It sounds to me like the partition table on your hard drive is corrupted. But I could be wrong.

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