0.5.8 booting issue

deception_1 · 09-05-2004, 01:38 PM

Heya'll, long time viewer, first time poster

I just downloaded the ISO for 0.5.8 and checked the md5 checksum. All was fine.

I burned the ISO as a bootable disk and rebooted.

Feather launches into boot but then ends with a (correct me if I say anything that doesn't make sense

) Caldera A:\ prompt. I waited thinking it was lagging, but no, its a prompt.

I've tried typing:

cd d:\
linux
help

all return with command not found.

What am i doing wrong?
Many thanks,
Matt

TyphoonMentat · 09-05-2004, 02:11 PM

Hmm, does it give you any error messages, such as "This is a limited shell", etc?

deception_1 · 09-05-2004, 02:23 PM

It says "Using DPMS DOS Protected Mode Services".

Then:

Caldera DR DOS 7.03
[DR DOS] A:\

Maybe it's something to do with the way I burned it?

TyphoonMentat · 09-05-2004, 02:35 PM

That's not Feather - either your CD isn't booting, you burned a CD with something already on it, or you've got the incorrect CD image.
Download the image from http://featherlinux.berlios.de/feather-0.5.8.iso and make sure to burn it with "Write Image" in your CD-burning software. Also, make sure that your BIOS is set to boot from CD.
If you still get it, try using a boot floppy.

deception_1 · 09-05-2004, 03:02 PM

OK Thanks.

I have tried to burn the ISO using a different Burning program and it works! Although now I get the error that Feather could not be booted and im in a limited shell

I used "knoppix lang-uk" (not sure if it's a hyphen, but I used the correct symbol whatever it was).

Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Matt

TyphoonMentat · 09-05-2004, 03:04 PM

Did you try just pressing Enter at the boot line?
You might also want to check out the Feather forums at http://featherlinux.berlios.de/phpBB2/index.php

deception_1 · 09-05-2004, 03:23 PM

Tried just pressing enter, same thing. Any more ideas? I'll have a look at those forums, thanks