slackware 10 "live" cd (disk 2)

muhkuhmasta · 09-09-2004, 10:38 AM

I tried booting Slackware 10 disc 2 but failed. it loaded until "Ramdisk Compressed Image found at Position 0" and then stopped. strgaltentf rebooting worked. I tried all kernels the cd had to offer without success. What is this?

gnashley · 09-09-2004, 01:02 PM

Sounds like a faulty initrd or corrupt burn. Will the same machine boot CD1? did you burn your own oder?

muhkuhmasta · 09-10-2004, 12:32 AM

I didn't try disc one, but since I have three PCs at hand I tried all of them and on one it actually worked

. So I don't think it's a faulty burn, but I'll try the first disc and post the results...

insyte · 09-10-2004, 12:40 AM

Had an almost similar weird problem before. My slackCd2 worked normally for one of the pcs with two cd drives. But it only worked on my normal cd drive, when I rebooted using the cd-rw drive, it wouldn't boot. Tried other liveCDs using the cdrw and they worked fine.

gnashley · 09-10-2004, 08:36 AM

read up on 'floppy emulation' and 'el torito' to really understand why this happens.

muhkuhmasta · 09-10-2004, 12:28 PM

can you point me to a site where to read this, please?

gnashley · 09-10-2004, 04:39 PM

just google for it. it has to do with how CD's boot, by emulating a floppy drive. el torito is a new standard and some old drives won't work with it.