User Feedback :: 0.8.1



regsx, I used Windows Me to run cd2iso on the CD for 0.8.0 (which I know works) but it gave me the error message "Something went wrong"
I downloaded .81 this morning and used EZ CD creator 5.3.421 sp28. I burned at 4x to a CDRW it burned and booted fine for me. I then installed it to a USB drive which worked fine also.
This is on a Dell D800
If it works for all of you, then the problem is obviously on my end.  I burned another cd-rw of 0.8.1.1 using dsl 0.8.0 (after checking the md5 again), same problem.

I can tell that the CD wants to start.  It does pause and look at the CD, but I never get to the boot: prompt.

I rechecked the md5sum of the iso and it was correct.  I mounted the iso file with mount -o loop dsl-0.8.1.1.iso /mnt/hda1 and compared the md5 of every file in the boot directory to the one on the CD and they matched.

When I looked at the 0.8.0 & 0.8.1.1 CDs I saw that the both had the same directory structure.  I ran an md5 for all of the files in the /boot/isolinux directory and only saw three diffrences between them: boot.cat, isolinux.bin, and minirt.gz.  We can exclude minirt.gz as a suspect because it only gets loaded after the boot.  That leaves isolinux.bin and boot.cat.

I tried to mount isolinux.bin using

mount -o loop isolinux.bin /mnt/hda1

but it said it couldn't guess the file system type.  I tried ext2 but that didn't work.

I really like dsl, and I want to make this work.  The way I see it, I need to check two things:

1) is boot.cat correct (is there a reason why it would it change???)

2) is isolinux.bin refusing to boot for a hardware reason but not diplaying a message.

Any help would be, well, helpfull.
I've had similar problems with 0.81 writing to disk but not booting on any of my three machines. 0.80 did burn (and boot) nicely for me just two days earlier.

I assumed it was a defect in my software (Iomage HotBurn running on Win98SE) or my hardware (Iomega Predator USB 2.0), and occurred both on CDRW and CDR media, and at different recording speeds. It looks like this may bear some more investigation...

At least I was able to start the disk with a boot floppy and install 0.81 to my harddrive.
OK guys...since 0.8.1 we have non-emulative booting
That means that the CD doesn't look like floppy to BIOS but like normal boot drive and some older hardware can't handle that :(
Maybe the kernel and stuff like that didn't fit into 1.44Mb (2.88Mb) of floppy emulated booting
Anyway...ask Jonh :)
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