FYI Dave, mine is an Emachine, esentially a cheap Gateway. Runs fine on mine.
On 10/28/07, Dave 'Doc' Corio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been told that the definition of insanity is doing the same > thing over and over and expecting different results. If that is true, > then I am indeed overqualified! > Just downloaded for the third time and burned the CD for the third > time. Thanks to Rein I was able to verify the checksum as being valid, > but the same error still presents itself on each and every boot attempt. > In answer to one question, yes, the CD is bootable. It boots fine for a > bit, but always ends up at this error: > > Error, cannot find Puppy on 'cd' boot media. > PUPMODE=1 PDEV1= > Exited to initial-ramdisk(initramfs)commandline... > (the Linux-guru can now debug. 'e3' editor is available) > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > #_ > > > Just for fun, I tried booting the CD on the XYL's computer. Hers is a > Gateway P-IV running at 2.7 Ghz with 1 Gig of RAM. Hers got farther than > mine did in the boot process. Hers got to: > > puppyserialdetect is running > > It hung there for a few minutes, so I finally gave up on it. > > My PC is also a Gateway, 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo, with 2 Gig of RAM. The only > difference I know of between hers and mine is that my hard drives are > SATA and not IDE. Not sure if the CD drive is SATA or IDE, but I suppose > that could make a difference. > > Thanks for all the help and suggestions! > > 73 > Dave > KB3MOW > > > > > > > Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at > http://www.obriensweb.com/drsked/drsked.php > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)
