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Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] new testing releases uploaded
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From: Dom <dl...@ed...> - 2007-12-31 12:35:36
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote cite="mid:477...@in..." type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><!---->You can use a perfect utility "install-on-usb". Please find it in the tarball with iso image. I'm not sure the "install-on-usb" from 1.3.4 is the same as from 1.2.10, so I recommend to use the script from 1.3.4 release exactly. You can do the following: - copy iso image of 1.3.4 and install-on-usb script to DL 1.2.10 system (to RAM or HDD, it depends on your hardware) or mount it over NFS from another system - execute script (install DL on usb) - check if it's working on any PC with USB booting possibility - check it on your target box. I'd like to note that there is no strong necessity to execute the zutility on your working server; you can use any linux box for this but ZISOFS support is required. It can be checked easily: mount iso image "mount bootcd.iso /mnt -o loop" and check that you are able to read text from /mnt/LICENSE or any other text file.</pre> </blockquote> Well I have made some progress but not in a good way <span class="moz-smiley-s2"><span> :-( </span></span><br> <br> The checksum checks out, I made a new CD and tried it but with the same result. Then I tried it on three other machines, each with different results, thus:<br> <br> Booting bootcd.iso: devil-linux-1.3.4-2007-12-27-i586 (testing version)<br> <ol> <li>The original: PCChips[ECS] M863G v1.5A (SiS741GX/963L) motherboard, 27/08/04 BIOS (latest), AMD Sempron 2400+, 256MB RAM: hangs at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/28122007040.jpg">http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/28122007040.jpg</a> (as seen before) [cpuinfo report: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1666.496 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 3329.22]</li> <li>PCChips[ECS] M810D (SiS740/962L) motherboard, 08/07/03 BIOS, AMD Athlon 2000+, 768MB RAM hangs in same way (I tried different BIOS settings without success)<br> </li> <li>PCChips[ECS] M863G v1.5A (SiS741GX/963L) motherboard, 27/08/04 BIOS (latest), AMD Sempron 2200+, 512MB RAM hangs at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/31122007042.jpg">http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/31122007042.jpg</a></li> <li>Acer Aspire T120E motherboard (SiS741GX rev. 03/964 rev.36), 12/02/04 BIOS, AMD Sempron 2800+, 256MB RAM: does not hang<br> </li> </ol> I am mystified why machine 3 hangs at a different point to 1, since they are almost identical, except for slightly different CPU and memory.<br> <br> I think I've taken this as far as I can for now. I don't at the moment have a spare usb stick to try the usb install method, when I have one I will try it (I was able to mount bootcd.iso and read text on it, thanks for that). Maybe the different hang on machine 3 above will give some clues as to what is going on?<br> <br> Regards<br> <br> Dom<br> <br> </body> </html> |
