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Hello!
a friend with a fast connection downloaded and burned the VL1.0 iso for me, but i get a FAILURE when i try to boot from the CD. other live CDs like DemoLinux 1.0 and SuSE 7.1 Live Eval work fine on my box.
the VL HOWTO says basically to burn and boot; did i miss something? i was looking forward to a current and customizable live CD, so any suggestions on booting this thing would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Cornelius
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Hi !
The basic howto,says burn an boot and that normally
works ...
In your case, what error do you get ?
Read error, device error etc ?
These errors are rare, but is 9/10 times caused by a dvd
player .. :)
I get the same errors from my own dvd, but the cdrw boots
fine, and in most other newer dvds that works better with
home made cd's, all works ..
The difference between suse's cd and mine is that i use
isolinux instead of syslinux,that should not cause these
boot problems..... but seems to do it in some cases
anyway ..;(
CrIxZ, VL devleoper
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thanks, Marten!
well, there is no real error message. i very briefly see LILO (at least i think it say LILO - it's very brief) flash up and disappear, then my screen says "CD BOOT: FAILURE," and the machine skips to hda for coventional boot-up. i tried to make a boot floppy from /isolinux/vmlinuz, but i got the same outcome.
i have a 50x AOpen CD-ROM drive and AMD K6-2 266 CPU with 96 Mb RAM... just a generic machine.
OK, thanks for your help!
cornelius
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I have the same problem too.
Is says "Loading vmlinux", it prints about ten dots, then
it stops.
The light on the CD-ROM flashes a few times, and then I get
the "BOOT FAILED" message.
My machine has a standard CD_ROM drive (not a DVD) and is
normally able to boot Windoes 2000 or syslinux-based disks.
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Hi Guys..
Hmm these bootproblems disturbs me a bit .. :(
I'll create a special boot floppy, in an attempt to fix
this problem, go check my download page later this evening
(cet) i'm having lunch at the moment, and i will do this
later on .
Marten, Vl developer marten@swipnet.se crixz@email.com
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I've done some more research.
Even under windows, my dvd, cd-rom and cd-burner are unable
to read the file x:\isolinux\vmlinuz. Each one returns a
different error message.
It may be that the image I've downloaded is corrupted
(could you please publish the MD5SUM for the file?), but
I'm fairly confident with the whole download and burning
procedure.
Could it be that the generated ISO image is not compatible
with all the cd-readers of the world??
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Well I have just burnt a cdrom with an image disributed on
PCPLUS December 2001. I have three systems around me and
all ignore the cd totally.
The image was burnt using Adaptec Easy CD Creator.
The bios on all machines show cdrom as the primary boot.
Whats the answer? Any advice greatly appreicated
bungys@blueyonder.co.uk
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Ehhm.. Has pcplus distributed my image ?
I have'nt heard anything about it before ..
Well, i have seen several ideas about this matter
here, i have not had any problems myself , except whith
Easy cd, where i had to burn thye iso as Raw,i.e remove all
preset settings .
I dont have a clue what actually is wrong, because all
burning software like Nero and other soft, where you can
burn the cd as is, works perfectly .
Can it be mkisofs in Linux , that creates non readable
images ?, dont think so :)
I have downloaded the uploaded image myself and tried to
burn it and boot from it , it works fine .
A tip for you guys whith troublesome images, do this for me
: Take it to a friend that has Cdrecord installed on a
linux box, and burn it there , and see if it works .
Mail me then and tell me what happened, and for the record :
I cant do any boot disk, i cannot shrink my boot or ramdisk
images enough, to get them to fit even a 1.7 mb formatted
disk, so .... i cannot do more until someone can figure out
what some burning soft cant do ...... are you whith me ?
Marten ,VL developer
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I've burnt an image from PCPLUS using Adaptec software too -
the burnt cdrom doesn't appear to be faulty, the cd is set
as the first boot device - but alas no joy.
I'm looking forward to the "special floppy" from
marten@swipnet.se
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Hi,
could marten@swipnet.se please post where his download page
can be found..Many thanks in anticipation
han-solo@netmatters.co.uk
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I downloaded virtual Linux from "pc-plus disc #184" and
burnt it onto a cd useing "navastar instant-cd wizard" and
set it as the boot device, But the computer did not boot
it, It just skiped it and continued to boot windows. I have
booted from other cdroms with the current config SO WHY NOT
THIS ONE?
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I too tried the image on the PC PLUS DVD.
Burnt it using NERO using the FILE, BURN IMAGE menu command.
BIOS has the CD-RW as the first boot device but the CD
won't boot, error message along the lines of "Boot Failure
from CD-ROM". I think this occurs for any non-bootable CD.
Then windows boots as normal.
SUSE evaluation CD worked fine!
I look forward to this problem being resolved.
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Hi All whith Boot problems ...
As i said a bit further down in this forum, i cannot do
any boot floppy as i thought earlier :(
I cannot shrink the Bootimage enough to get it to fit any
floppy formatted to what ever format .....
What i can do, whith a complete rewrite of the boot
sequenze, is to back up a bit and switch back to syslinux
as boot loader, i am using isolinux at the moment, which
enbles me to use less but bigger ramimages and so on .
I can do this,but not today, pr next week, my work takes
too much time at the moment .
I have to wait until my present project is finished, i'm
working 12-14 hr /Day :(
I would gladly apreciate, if someone could tell me WHY the
same iso works fine whith Cdrecord and some versions of
Nero, but apparently NOT whith Other burning software.
i can fix whatever is wrong whith the iso,if i know where
to begin !!!!!!!!!!
Please Help me out ...
Marten, VirtualLinux Developer ( crixz@email.com
marten@swipnet.se etc)
PLEASE READ THIS POSTING !!!
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ONE SOLUTION, Mailed to me from Amanda :
> Las week I wrote on the SourceForge forum about
the problems I had on
> booting the CD image.
> Now I've solved the problem and I think it's
useful to share my knowledge.
>
> In an Internet site I've read that Nero Burning
Rom can have some problems -
> under specific HS/SW conditions - in burning
images whose size isn't
> multiple of 8192 bytes. Specifically, the last
file inserted into the image
> may be truncated even if the directory entry
reports the correct size.
>
> guess what? I've had used Nero, and the current
virtual Linux image isn't
> multiple of 8192 bytes and the last file appears
to be.... VMLINUZ !!!!
>
> My obvious solution was to use another burning
program (CDRWIN3), but I
> think it would help many people if you report a
warning on your site. Better
> yey, if you could create images multiple of 8K.
> -----------------------------------------
> Thanks a lot, I've experimented a little and
VirtualiLinux seems wonderful.
> I may decide to remove my Mandrake installation
form the HD!!!!!!
>
> <Andrea Omodeo (www.andrea.omodeo.com) >
>
>
PLEASE TRY THIS !!!!!
Marten, VL Developer (Marten@swipnet.se)
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I am also having problems getting the image from the PCPlus DVD to boot after using Adaptec Easy CD to
burn the image onto a CDR. Can someone tell me, if I look at the CD from Windows, what files should be in
the CD's route? All I see is TRANS.TBL and a Linux style directory tree. Is this correct or have PCPlus sent
out a naff image.
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Hi !
I submitted a solution that i will do to the current iso
when there is some time to kill, but linux users can do it
rightaway and burn another copy of the cd .
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I Noticed that mounting CD and
running "sum /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz" gave an I/O
error, not good, so...
Just tried padding the .iso file with zeros and re-burning -
WOO-HOO!
dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=64 >> VL*.iso
Burned that, and - presto-magico - works now
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Thanks Reese Faucette for this solution .
Marten, Vl Developer