Failed to boot

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Failed to boot
started by: ItsaSpoon

Posted by ItsaSpoon on May 06 2006,02:11

Sorry if this is in the wrong section but.
I was using DSL yesterday (using a boot floppy) and it was working like it usually does.

Today I woke up and booted it up to be horrified by the message when it booted from the floppy
Debain (2.01 or something)

5 seconds later
Debain (2.01 or something) Failed to boot.

I have tried making another boot floppy and it does the same thing and I don't think its my CD because when the floppy boots to the error thing the CD light does not flash.

Posted by piccolo on May 06 2006,11:04

Try to create a DSL boot floppy in another floppy disk

Posted by ItsaSpoon on May 08 2006,06:53

"Failed Boot" on 2 new floppys. :angry:

any ideas?

Posted by piccolo on May 08 2006,22:19

Idea:
Assuming the computer have Windows installed you can do this:

1. Extract from the dsl-x.x.iso image file the folder KNOPPIX to the hard disk. Then you will have the C:\KNOPPIX folder and inside the C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file.
NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD USE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS FOR THE DIR NAME AND FILE NAME

2. Reboot the computer using the DSL boot floppy.

That launch DSL using the file onto hard disk as well as DSL boot from CDROM. Therefore, DSL was not installed to hard disk but will run "live mode" from RAM memory.

Posted by ItsaSpoon on May 09 2006,08:22

I know thats the poor-man boot or something but I don't have windows.

Posted by piccolo on May 09 2006,09:46

From your first post I assume you run DSL from LiveCD. Correct?
Then I think the CD was corrupted.
If you have other computer then you can to try boot DSL from that CD.
Other method to know if the ISO file is corrupted it is check if md5summed and the checksums match. Here how to do it:< Getting DSL From the Mirrors >