[Quantian-general] MD5SUM errors

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>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
>  
>
I experienced the same thing. For some reason, if I just hit "Enter" at 
the boot prompt, it does that kernel panic thing. However, if I type in 
"knoppix lang=us" and *then* hit "Enter", it comes up just fine! So ... 
there's nothing wrong with the burn, but there may be some default boot 
string missing from the .iso that was there on previous versions. I 
don't know enough about the early microseconds of a Knoppix boot to 
diagnose this.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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