[Quantian-general] Quantian 0.7.9.1 DVD ISO

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 31 January 2006 at 19:55, Jose Luis Gomez Dans wrote:
| >You may have burned a coaster. I have done so too with k3b. There is
| >difference between creating a data dvd and a bootable one.
| 
| I just burned the ISO image using the "Burn ISO image". I even checked the 

Good!

| MD5 hash using k3b, so the DVD has the system, and not just the ISO in it. 
| Funnily enough, in the computers at work it  boots up (I get the blackboard 
| penguin), and it starts booting up, but stops with a kernel panic sayint it 

Known error, and my mistake in not supplying a default for the isolinux boot.
If you say 'linux26' at that point 'blackboard penguin' prompt, all is well.
'linux24' also works and gets you openMosix.

| cannot mount the root FS. Issuing the noapic blah blah options, it stops 
| complaining about an unknown graphics card. So maybe the DVD was knackered,

I never saw that with the various machines I tried. There are certain Knoppix
bootcode you could try ... Standard knoppix docs apply for this -- no
Quantian changes.
 
| but a previous version I tried using (burned by a friend) was also unuseable 
| in my home laptop (fairly new acer Aspire 1360) and on my home desktop 
| computer (fairly old Duron system). Other systems that boot from a CD (not a 
| DVD) work fine in either box. Could this be a DVD-related problem? Other 
| DVDs (films and data) work fine, but this is the only booting DVD I have 
| tried so far!

Hard to tell at this point...

Dirk

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