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roberts

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Posted: May 05 2006,17:23

No new boot procedure.
If there is another liveCD distro thrown into the equation, I would not know how to answer. I would think which image to load would be specified via options specified in grub's menu.lst

ZoOp

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Posted: May 06 2006,14:34

roberts,

first of all: my machine is a vaio laptop PCG-FX802 (1500 mgh, 256 MB Ram).

My problem persists: using Knoppix 4.02 from live-cd (cd-rom is the first boot option in my bios) with DSL 2.4 RC2 installed on the machine (frugal with the grub bootloader), I can't get the prompt of the Knoppix live cd-rom 4.02; instead of it, I have the following:

GRUB loading Stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...

and then I get my grub screen with the usual boot paramaters as they are in my menu.lst; then, it shows me the pinguin and the DSL logo, and nothing of the knoppix 4.02 live-cd.

In other words, when I put another live-cd in my machine in order to boot from this live-cd, grub is running instead, and doesn't let me get the prompt of the live-cd.
Any suggestion?
yours
z

roberts

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Posted: May 06 2006,16:42

If grub is installed on your hard drive then it sounds like a boot order issue which is typically set in BIOS. Or possibily your machine is having difficulty booting from cdrom and therefore failsover to booting from hard drive.

ZoOp

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Posted: May 06 2006,17:48

roberts,
thank you a lot for your prompt reply.
After check, I confirme: a) bios first boot option is cd-rom, then floppy and then HD; b) I neither have encountered a boot problem on cd-rom nor a mecanical cd-rom problem on this machine (when tipping this answer, I am actually viewing an old rory gallagher show with mplayer on my machine).
I don't understand the problem. Same problem with 2.4 RC1. After installing DSL 2.3 (frugal with grub), I don't have the problem. It remains a mystery to me.
yours
z