[Trinux-talk] Trinux, I have a booting problem.

[<Ian...@la...>]

Hi Matthew,

Trinux ISOs are giving me a problem.

First the Floppy image for the PCMCIA (trinux-0.80rc2-pcmcia.img) works=

beautifully. Thanks.

I have downloaded both

trinux-0.81pre0-2.4.5.iso=A0=A0trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso files and have pr=
oblems
with both.

I have checked the trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso MD5 checksum and it matches t=
hat
in the trinux.sourceforge.net site I have read it back from the CD and =
it
is the same so my CD is also the same. The CD starts to boot but the ke=
rmel
hangs. I have tried it on two machines here. One which has run Linux fo=
r
several years a Pentium II 233 from Sony (Vaio PCG 737). Another machin=
e,
an IBM T20 512MB RAM PIII 750MHz does the same. I am reluctant to use i=
t on
my servers because I want them to stay up. (One is an Alpha anyway).

The other ISO trinux-0.81pre0-2.4.5.iso MD5

137264378ae7863d5e75fffb9fc3f463=A0 trinux-0.81pre0-2.4.5.iso

will not even begin to boot. It appears to have no boot sector as the P=
Cs
(same as above) boot from the hard drive as normal.

Investigating the ISO file on the server with a loopback mount gives th=
is

/home/ianm/incoming/trinux-0.81pre0-2.4.5.iso on /mnt/t1 type iso9660
(ro,loop=3D/dev/loop0)

[ianm@bmf incoming]$ cd /mnt/t1
[ianm@bmf t1]$ cd isolinux/
[ianm@bmf isolinux]$ file *
boot.cat:=A0=A0=A0=A0 data
bzimage:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 x86 boot sector
initrd.gz:=A0=A0=A0 gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, =
`initrd',
last modified: Thu Nov=A0 8 12:22:22 2001, max compression, os: Unix
isolinux.bin: file: read failed (Input/output error).

Remember the MD5 checksum is the same as that on Sourceforge. This is n=
ot
the only file to fail.

Please advise. My suspicion is incorrect options to mkisofs but there i=
s no
way I can tell.

Thanks for what otherwise is a great package and regards,

Ian
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