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rhyek

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Posted: April 19 2006,19:34

i see a lot of people mentioning which stick brand name and model they're using. should this matter? well if it does, i'm using a 2GB cruzer micro. brand new.
seems to install fine using the usb hdd option from the tool. i've included a screenshot of the process.
so when i boot it up, it says 'Disk error' or something very similar. i'm trying this on two pc's at work.
last night at home, i did the same thing, only i got a
'Can't find kernel
boot:'
... or something very similar.
any ideas as to what might be the problem?

rhyek

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Posted: April 19 2006,19:38

actually, when i tried at home last night, i did't set any boot paramaters.

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Posted: April 19 2006,19:46

eh bit confused here.

You do or you dont get a Boot screen that looks like the live cd?
Is it:
1) IE it come up you press enter to boot and it errs out to a "limited shell"
2) you never see the boot screen?

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rhyek

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Posted: April 19 2006,19:51

never see the boot screen.
if you were using windows, the first hint of windows being loaded (i think it's Loading Windows).. this is were it gets stuck.
like i said, it's just 'Disk error' or something very similar.

rhyek

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Posted: April 19 2006,20:59

i think it has to do with the geometry on the usb stick. never heard of that til now. it might explain the following line on that image up there:
/dev/sda1: Cluster sizes larger than 16k not supported

guess this means the whole installation wasn't successful.

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