Error on Boot.

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Error on Boot.
started by: discussional

Posted by discussional on Jan. 15 2004,04:32

Hi, I've just downloaded DSL and am having some errors whilst trying to boot from the cd. I would prefer a hd-install when i can get to finding out how, or even getting into the OS first. After a large penguin splash screen, the shell reads: ' boot: ' A friend of mine did this last night as well, but burnt it the same as i did, and ran it fine. He said it might be my cd-rom drive. It is a Benq 52x24x52 burner.. I also have 48x and 16x speed drives here too, should It work with them? I cant even burn cd's in Redhat9 which im currently running.

I have a K6/500mhz with 128mb's ram, so redhat9 is relatively slow for me. I need more power with an OS and the only thing I could think of is dsl.. I've downloaded a copy of VectorLinux as well, but its showing as 220mb's on my hard drive, but in Ftp it says its 232mb.. which the file is meant to be. I stopped it and restarted the ftp client a few times though, because im on dialup. I dont need any eye candy from an OS.. just want something really stable, and fast on my machine, disk size doesnt matter really. Just memory usage really I guess.

Thanks
Nathan

Posted by Vacendak on Jan. 15 2004,05:29

Try slowing down your burn speed 2x or 4x should work go also check against the md5sum. I just Burned the iso last night and had the same problem. So I erased the cd slowed down the burn speed to 2x and it worked fine

Good Luck
Vacendak

Posted by davmac on Jan. 15 2004,14:29

Nathan,

Possibly a stupid question, but when you get the "boot:" prompt, you are hitting "enter" aren't you?

Dave Mac

Posted by discussional on Jan. 16 2004,22:03

Dave, initially, yes, I was. Then I decided to reburn the cd, at 4x which is the slowest my burner will go. After doing so, it comes up with two lines of loading 'something' .gz and continues to . then ... then ........... as normal programs load, basically the dot travels a couple centimeters, goes onto the next one.. after that, a blank screen comes up and then nothing. Im sure I gave everything enough time to load, three or four minutes is just unreasonable.. or does it take longer~? The first time i burnt the cd it was at 16x also. I didnt realise these discs i got were so slow. This burner is a dodgy Benq, and my redhat computer doesnt support buring from it. I had to use my sister's windows drive to download and burn it with Nero 5.5. Could it be the actual writer? I just bought it the day I burnt DSL. It was very cheap and im having doubts, but its all i could afford at the moment due to having to purchase nearly a whole networking system for the house (hubs/NIC's/Server).