SPECIALIST125 Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Well I'll list the steps I took so someone can help me. The problem is with the kernel image for some reason it's not on the iso cd or my computer is not reading it I dont know. I wanted to download the "Mandriva Linux Move Download Edition ISO image for i586 and higher processors". 1.So I went to the ftp mirror link and downloaded from one of the locations. 2. I saved the download to my desktop. 3. Using CD burner xp pro 3 I went to file an seleted "write disk from ISO file" and selected the iso image from my desktop. 4. Once the cd burn had complete I resarted the computer with the cd in the drive. It start up but then it would resart the system. It is for some reason not loading the kernel. I have tried other distro and none work but hopefully someone can help me with this. I check the iso image on my desktop and the md5 matched up. I dont know if I need to verify the cd with the iso image on it also extra info I am using a hp pavilian a140n It has a 2.8GHz Intel extreme celeron processor It has 512 MB of DDR SDRAM memory 120GB 7200 RPM ultra DMA hard Drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 It might be your burning program. Here's a free windows cd burning program you can try called Deep Burner: http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download Try the free version and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachwor Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Also try burning your CD at a much lower speed. Try 2x or 4x. It might be annoying, but burning CD's at 52X can yield some errors, possibly ones not letting you install the kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 also, if you still have the ISO file on your desktop, try download/install of md5summer. Before you run the md5summer against the ISO file, you should visit the mirror that you downloaded the file from, there should be a text file called the md5sum. Get that. Then you compare the result from the md5summer application against the md5sum number in the text file, if they're the same then great, re-do the burn at a slower speed, if the numbers don't check out, then you probably need to redownload the ISO file again. The mismatch suggests corruption, a match tells you that it's a good download. There are those who say that you might get away with a small amount of differences between the md5sum text file number and the result from the checker. In my experience if there is even a single character difference it has the potential not to work at all (I might have been unlucky in the past, I don't know). Once the numbers check out, it SHOULD boot Ok. regards John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Well I used that md5summer and also accuhash(I think I spelled it right ) and the md5sum matched. I will try that other burn program and see if that solves the problem. So I'll post a reply within the hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Ok I'm back I used the Deep Burner to burn my ISO image and my md5sum matches also. I got the same result as before (stated at beginning of post). So where do I go from here. I dont know what else to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 This is an issue in various laptops with problematic ACPI. Please get "Smart Boot Manager" from here burn it to a RW and boot from it. When you get the choice of what to boot, move the choice down to your CD-ROM but don't press enter yet. Remove the SBM CD, put in the Move one, close the tray and wait for 10-15 seconds for the drive to spin and read the CD. Now press enter, and see if it loads. If it still isn't, I would try burning the ISO with some other utility ( Burnatonce and Burrrn! are both free+ fine, and have no trouble burning ISO images). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 (edited) which one should I download from smart boot manager. Im not very fimiliar with it. Could you be more specific (maybe add some step by step list) Edited January 25, 2006 by SPECIALIST125 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 (edited) which one should I download from smart boot manager. Im not very fimiliar with it. Could you be more specific (maybe add some step by step list) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You have to build the ISO, but if you're lazy to do that you can get it from here ready to go. Edited January 25, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 No, being lazy is not an issue. I am new to this so I like to get it right with minium error. So I need to burn that zip file as an iso image is what you telling me right. Also, how exactly do you build such a file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 If you deflate the .zip you will find a (small) ISO image inside... just burn it to a rewritable CD, and boot from it. For building an ISO you need mkisofs (pretty standard on all Linux distibutions, although I can recall when compiling SBM that there was a switch which allowed building both the binaries AND two images (one ISO, one for floppy) so you wouldn't worry too much about it... Anyway, that ready-made one from kanotix website is fine, use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Well I burned the smart boot manager but It didnt solve my problem (same results as stated above). Whats else should I try ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 When you get the initial liveCD screen, press escape, and then linux acpi=off nopcmcia or livecd acpi=off nopcmcia (I haven't used Move for ages, so I don't know the actual name of the boot kernel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 So Scarecrow should I still use sbm or boot straight from the cd then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 (edited) So Scarecrow should I still use sbm or boot straight from the cd then <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Whatever works, but if booting straight from the Move CD is OK with that boot argument, then beginning with SBM CD won't harm you, apparently... By the way, can anyone inform us what's the actual name of the "Move" boot kernel? "linux" ? "vmlinuz" ? "livecd" ? "guess-what" ? Thank you in advance... Edited January 26, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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