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  • From: "Nomdo Jansonius" <nomdo AT dds.nl>
  • To: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ramdrive version doesn't boot
  • Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:54:18

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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