I haven't given up just yet! Just giving my head a rest from beating
it against the wall hi hi!
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
FYI Dave, mine is an Emachine, esentially a cheap Gateway. Runs fine
on mine.
On 10/28/07, Dave 'Doc' Corio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:dcorio%40zitomedia.net>> 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:
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> 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
>
> #_
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> 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
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