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Posted: Sep. 11 2004,00:01 |
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If it works for all of you, then the problem is obviously on my end. I burned another cd-rw of 0.8.1.1 using dsl 0.8.0 (after checking the md5 again), same problem.
I can tell that the CD wants to start. It does pause and look at the CD, but I never get to the boot: prompt.
I rechecked the md5sum of the iso and it was correct. I mounted the iso file with mount -o loop dsl-0.8.1.1.iso /mnt/hda1 and compared the md5 of every file in the boot directory to the one on the CD and they matched.
When I looked at the 0.8.0 & 0.8.1.1 CDs I saw that the both had the same directory structure. I ran an md5 for all of the files in the /boot/isolinux directory and only saw three diffrences between them: boot.cat, isolinux.bin, and minirt.gz. We can exclude minirt.gz as a suspect because it only gets loaded after the boot. That leaves isolinux.bin and boot.cat.
I tried to mount isolinux.bin using
mount -o loop isolinux.bin /mnt/hda1
but it said it couldn't guess the file system type. I tried ext2 but that didn't work.
I really like dsl, and I want to make this work. The way I see it, I need to check two things:
1) is boot.cat correct (is there a reason why it would it change???)
2) is isolinux.bin refusing to boot for a hardware reason but not diplaying a message.
Any help would be, well, helpfull.
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