Help, booting problems

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Help, booting problems
started by: Lspace

Posted by Lspace on June 24 2005,00:09

Hi,
I have made a live cd (it works on other machines) but my pc (pentium 133 Win98) refuses to recognize it as a bootable cd.
It does recognize a win98 cd as such.

what could be wrong?

P.S. I'm a total newbie at this

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 24 2005,03:42

Try one of the boot floppies. Look in the current/ directory of any of the mirrors.

Or you can use Smart Boot Manager. It works just as good and a lot faster.

< http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm >

Posted by roberts on June 24 2005,03:52

Try downloading and burning the syslinux version of DSL. It is made for older machines that refuse to boot from the "standard" dsl.iso which happens to be isolinux.

Posted by Lspace on June 24 2005,11:00

Thanks,
I'll go for the syslinux option since my floppy drive has died on me some time ago and I still haven't got round to reving it.

I'll let you know how it turns out

Posted by Ibrahim on June 27 2005,04:40

i had some problems with it too, checking out the syslinux version.

Posted by Lspace on June 27 2005,08:28

Syslinux was just the ticket, it works fine now.
Now all I have to do is figure out how it all works. Got any lit. suggestions?

Posted by Ibrahim on June 27 2005,18:47

syslinux still doesnt work for me, but at least it gets to the boot screen.

after which it gives a an error.

Posted by Ibrahim on June 27 2005,18:49

i meant this one:

Posted by triad99 on July 01 2005,06:29

i'm a linux noobie and wanted to start with a live cd before i went on to a HD install..i've heard a lot of good things about DSL and i've tried to run it a few times. I get to a dos-like screen with a Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 logo above the command line...i presume that this is a dosprompt....what do i do now? i've tried "knoppix toram", "toram", "dsl toram", "boot" but all i get are filename or command not recognised...pls HELP ME!!!!
I want to try this thing out....

Posted by paullynch on July 02 2005,08:29

You burnt the CD wrong; it is a DR-DOS bootable CD, presumably with DSL as the data content. You need to burn it as a CD image.

Posted by wicked tribe on July 06 2005,07:58

I know I am odd man out because my hand has been held for so long ...
I am an old school Mac user (system 7 thank you very much) but the whole OSX thing got me onto the Linux tip... so I got an (very) old pc to mess around with. I get the DSL iso burned it even boots from the disk but after all the hardware is recognized and all the lovely linux goodie pop up the screen goes kinda grey and nothing happens....

the machine:
333 cyrix (ooohhh yeah I remember those)
160MB RAM
4MB ati "rage"
2GB hd

anyone know it this is a hardware problem or an intance of interfence btween keyboard and chair?

Posted by wicked tribe on July 06 2005,08:00

sorry BEFORE all the linux goodies pop up the screen goes grey
excuse me I am awake too late and had to much to drink

Posted by paullynch on July 06 2005,13:40

Sounds like you are just starting X, which isn't recognising your video properly.

Try typing at the boot: prompt -

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