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["Nomdo Jansonius" <nomdo AT dds.nl>]

Downloaded a new one. No luck. Moreover, my CD-rom RAMDISK version works 
fine on at least three other computers, but not on this one. Nomdo

> Date sent:      Sun, 21 May 2006 17:44:11 +0000 (UTC)
> From:           sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
> To:             baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject:        Re: [BL] ramdrive version doesn't boot
> Send reply to:  baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

> On Sun, 21 May 2006, Nomdo Jansonius wrote:
> 
> >> Nomdo Jansonius wrote:
> >
> >>> HD version of basiclinux (BL2) boots without problem. Ramdrive version
> >>> doesn't boot. Last line displayed during boot:
> >>>
> >>> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> 
> Have you tried ramdisk BL3.40?
> 
> Have you tried reinstalling the BL2 ramdisk version?  Sometimes files go bad
> when the file system gets corrupted.  You can install a second copy of BL2
> ramdisk in another directory of the same partition/drive.   Or unzip the
> downloaded zip file again somewhere else and just copy over the 'compressed
> image', which may have gone bad.  baslinux.gz, about 1.6MB. You can check
> for differences between original and copy with md5sum (in another linux, or
> get the DOS version, which I think I posted at
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/md5sum.exe but I am currently in DOS and
> cannot check easily).
> 
> .......
> 
> >
> >>> It used to run properly on this computer, as I had used it
> >>> to install BL2 on my HD.
> 
> ......
> 
> > Even more amazing: I even managed to run the RAMdisk version of Slackware
> > 10.2 (bare.i, install.1, and install.2). No BL2 anymore for some weird
> > reason (well, as long as I don't mess-up my HD version, I can still use
> > that).
> 
> This suggests that something has gone wrong with your BL2 files, since the
> hardware works, and BL2 ramdisk used to work.
> 
> > Any other suggestions (for example, what could be the critical
> > difference between BL2 and SW10)?
> >
> >> Cheers,
> >> Steven
> >
> > Nomdo
> >
> 
> Sindi
> 
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