CD fails to boot

[fourtrackmind]

If I just hit enter at the boot: prompt, it booted fine, my first times around the live CD.

Did you try just typing "knoppix" (no quotes)?

Hope this helps

[millennia]

fourtrackmind

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:42 pm
If I just hit enter at the boot: prompt, it booted fine, my first times around the live CD.

Hope this helps

I dont know if you talking to me but I tried that.

[fourtrackmind]

Yes, I was talking to you!

I saved my preferences on a floppy and I need to boot as

knoppix floppyconfig

So, maybe just knoppix might work. Just enter worked my first few times, until I saved my preferences to a floppy.

I tried to help, anyway......

[pvalley]

when you burned your disk A:what program did you use? b: did you goto something like "burn iso image"? and then burn the cd C: are the cd's your using 700mg?

[millennia]

pvalley
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:01 am


when you burned your disk A:what program did you use? b: did you goto something like "burn iso image"? and then burn the cd C: are the cd's your using 700mg?

A: I used Easy CD creator

B: I just double clicked the ISO file. It automatically brought up Easy CD creator, then all I had to do is click "start recording".

C: Yes teh CD's are 700MB

[windos_no_thanks]

windos_no_thanks wrote
Are you trying to boot from the CD ? Did you burn it yourself ? If so just do what I suggested in my previous post so we can find out if it has been burned the right way.

Yes I'm trying to boot fro the CD. I did burn it myself . Yes it has all the files in it. When I boot it will boot me up, give me the knoppix logo and ask for which boot options. (It gives me the command prompt boot
I tryied alot of differnt options but none seem to work.
I have downloaded PHLAK and I use fbdev module on that,
but on Knoppix it doesnt work.

Ok, the next step would be to verify the CD, type "knoppix testcd" at the boot prompt.

[millennia]

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windos_no_thanksOk, the next step would be to verify the CD, type "knoppix testcd" at the boot prompt.

Ok that didnt work eitther. It still hangs with

boot: testcd
Loading vmlinuz.............
Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue..

[windos_no_thanks]

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windos_no_thanksOk, the next step would be to verify the CD, type "knoppix testcd" at the boot prompt.

Ok that didnt work eitther. It still hangs with

boot: testcd
Loading vmlinuz.............
Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue..

I'd say it is very likely you either have a faulty CD or hardware problems.

Check the md5sum of the iso file if you haven't done it already.
A windows checker program available here: http://etree.org/cgi-bin/counter.cgi...are/md5sum.exe
(get the *.iso.md5 file from the same place you got the iso file and compare the contents of it with the result the checker program gives)
If the md5sum doesn't match something has gone wrong during the download. Web browsers seem to have pretty crappy download features, some downloader software is recommended.

If the md5sum matches the burner software might be the cause of the problem, unfortunately many of them seem to be of poor quality...

[pvalley]

well in all my time i hate to tell you this but you have a blown cd i would give it another go but before you do double check to see that you have the most recent directx installed and check to see if there are any patches to easy cd creator if all else fails get nero burning rom you can get vers 5.5 pretty cheap via the internet

Paul

[robbyappleton]

Got mine to work...all it took was downloading alcohol 120% and burning the .iso with that.