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Topic: CD boot from Knoppix OK, but not from DSL...

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GCZFFL

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,17:10

I've been CD booting Knoppix on MS Windows HD boot partition boxes for some time without incident, and I just tried to do the same with the latest version of DSL, and it still went right to Windows, but I throw the Knoppix CD in, and Knoppix boots fine.

I'm making the DSL CDs the indentical way I make the Knoppix CDs (download the ISO, burn the ISO to CD), but for some reason I can't get the BIOS to recognize that the DSL CDs are bootable, but the BIOS has no problems with the Knoppix CDs.

Ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Joe

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,17:23

New knoppix, or old knoppix?

GCZFFL

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,18:09

Knoppix 3.7 (2004-12-08).

GCZFFL

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,19:14

Solved it. Every CD that I made didn't work because the source ISO was bad. Interestingly enough, it wrote files to the CD, but the file \boot\isolinux\isolinux.cfg was corrupt.

Re-downloaded the ISO from another site, and it works.

Obviously I need to verify my MD5 checksums with a bit more regularity.

Thanks!

Joe

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Posted: Feb. 04 2005,23:48

I'll make a note of that...
I've had a few that would boot on one box, but not on another. Not DSL, those work just fine. I just downloaded the 0.9.3 syslinux version, burned it, booted, and now am posting this, all in 10 minutes. Have a cable modem, so the download is about 5 min, and I have the rest down pat so it goes real quick. Hat's off to the DSL team, it's really very nice.

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