Re: [Unattended] Some feedback on boot CDs

[Patrick J. L. <pa...@us...>]

Shane Curtis <sc...@eq...> writes:

> On 16 Jul 2004 at 15:08, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > OK, I have been putting this off for too long.  This weekend I will
> > implement my "find the boot device" plan.
> > 
> > I assume you will volunteer to test it :-) ?
> 
> Will do. :)

Please download find-boot-device from
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/> and let me know how it
behaves on your system where /dev/hdc (or was it hdb?) is the boot
device.

> And on 16 Jul 2004 at 15:20, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > Well, this looks promising:
> >   http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=2cVUi-33T-11%40gated-at.bofh.it
> > So, maybe try booting with "noapic" and/or "ide0=serialize"?
> 
> Unfortunately no luck. I've now tried noapic, acpi=off,
> ide0=serialize, ide1=serialize, and combinations thereof without
> success.

Hm...  I am not sure what to tell you.  You could try installing a
Linux distribution with the 2.6 kernel (like Fedora Core 2, Suse 9.1,
or Mandrake 10.0).  They should experience a similar problem, and then
you can report the problem to the distribition vendor.

Or you can try reporting your problem directly to the linux-kernel
mailing list.  But if you tell them you are using some hacked up
distribution hand-rolled by me they might laugh at you :-).  I can
tell you that we are using a very stock 2.6.7 kernel.

> Checking the hashes (MD5, SHA1 and CRC32) of the
> unattended-4.3-dosboot.zip I downloaded from a mirror (don't know
> which) on the 22nd June, against the copies I downloaded again today
> from the Australian and Belgium mirrors, shows no difference:
> 
> MD5:	8d2e883df10d0737e6aed41b730cfb1f
> SHA1:	349a64a0acfcc61306bf5028b52eca0e22aea4b5
> CRC32:	956e7cf4
> 
> Hashes for my local copy of the v4.3 dos diskboot.iso, extracted using 
> ZipGenius (GUI app made in 2004) and UnZip (CLI app made in 1996), also 
> show no difference:
> 
> MD5:	9423e89ddaef8b7af7af335eebdb8023
> SHA1:	43a79f92e42fc8f50e0e068dc3cdcfbab3bbe68e
> CRC32:	cca355bf
> 
> Any ideas?

Drop the CD into a Linux box and compute the hash directly over the
media ("md5sum /dev/hdc" or whatever).

Other than that, I am again not sure what to tell you.  The CD boots
fine for me and for others, as far as I know.

 - Pat