On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Kam Leo wrote:
On 7/8/05, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Following myself up:
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Booting from CD 1 produces the boot screen. Pressing Enter produces:
ISOLINUX 3.08 2005-05-19 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying
to wing it...
isolinux: Found something at drive=9F
isolinux: Found something at drive=81
isolinux: Found something at drive=80
isolinux: Looks like it might be right, continuing...
isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...
Boot failed: press a key to retry...
This happens with a CD1 that burned correctly and has been used to install on
two other machines. It also happens with a CD burned with boot.iso from the
images/ directory on the same drive I'm booting from. Same result booting
with "linux nodma".
The machine is an Athlon T-Bird on an ASUS A7V motherboard. The IDE
controller (hard disk) is a Promise Ultra-100. The SCSI controller (CD-ROM
and <blush> SyJet drive) is a BusLogic BT-958.
This is definitely related to the SCSI controller or devices. A similar
machine with an IDE CD-ROM boots with no problem.
Suggestions?
Still open to suggestions or an answer to the question:
Why did FC3 work fine where FC4 fails so miserably?
TIA.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
Do you have an existing OS installed on the machine that has problems
with the CD? If so perform a media check using that machine. Your
problem may be due to the CD drive not being able to read these FC4
discs. I would suggest that you try different media and/or burn the
discs at a lower speed, e.g. 12X instead of 24X or higher.
FC3 on that machine has no trouble reading the CDs. I can't even boot the
CD far enough to carry out the media check step on that machine. The CDs
pass the media check with no trouble on other machines. As I said, I've
installed from them on other machines, and a boot.iso CD that I burned on
the drive in the machine in question also does not boot on that machine.
How can I get the sha1sum of the image on the disc itself?
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
