[Quantian-general] MD5SUM errors

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 December 2005 at 16:20, Gill, Jack wrote:
| Thanks, all, for the help.
| 
| I was successful in using rsync, the remainder of the file downloaded,
| and the md5sum checked exactly.
| 
| I burned the DVD with K3B, and had it verify the image.  It confirmed
| it.
| 
| However...
| 
| When I attempted to boot 0.7 from the DVD (the 0.6 DVD will boot ok), I
| get the following message right after I see the penguin:
| 
| Kernel panic -- not syncing : VFS : unable to mount root fs on
| unknown-block(1,3)
| 
| Does anyone have any suggestions?  I tried burning another one, all
| checked out, and I still get the same message.

According to messages on the debian-knoppix list, you may be better off
trying growisofs directly.  Personally, I have lilo boot the image directly
off the hard disk as that makes testing easier ...  See the HOWTOs for some
docs on how to do that.

Hth, Dirk

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