Laptops :: Unable to boot Compaq presario 900

Hello,
This has started happening when I burnt the new DSL 2.0. I could boot fine with DSL 1.5. Nothing happens after the 'Accessing image at /dev/scd0' message is displayed.

I can boot though with the expert option and am posting here from DSL 2.0 booted using the 'expert' boot option with no other parameters. I have to answer no to the using other modules from a floppy question, yes(autoprobe) to 'Load SCSI Modules' and no to (re)configure others - keyboard, soundcard, mouse & X11.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug in 2.0 (new, or already reported)?

Thank you,
Prasad

Can you boot with:

failsafe

as your boot parameter?

I get the following booting ONLY 'failsafe' (not as a parameter). 'failsafe' as a parameter to expert gives the same result as expert.

8<----------------------------------->8
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

Additional builtin commands available:
cat mount umount
insmod rmmod lsmod
8<----------------------------------->8

Nothing happens after the 'Accessing image at /dev/scd0' message is displayed.

I am a new user trying to load dsl on a 1999 laptop running win98se athlon chip 400mhz.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug in 2.0 (new, or already reported)?

Thank you,
Ray

Did you use the md5sum command-line utility on the iso file? If you use Windows on the system you burned the CD, download md5sum.exe and save it to C:\WINDOWS. Then enter the following command in the iso directory at the MS-DOS/Command Prompt:

md5sum dsl-2.0.iso

If the number that appears matches the one at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....md5.txt, then you have a good iso. If not, you should download it with a download manager. I use Free (as in beer) Download Manager on my laptop with XP Pro. Remember to use md5sum once you downloaded DSL again.

Also, if the regular iso doesn't work with your system, try the syslinux version.

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