[nzlug] Debian live distros not booting

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 3:26:04 pm Dirk Pilat wrote:
> Anyway, both Knoppix, Dyne:bolic and DSL refuse to boot off the sata  
> optical drive (and dsl off USB stick): after doing a normal startup  
> routine they drop into a shell, commenting that it can't find the drive it
>   just booted off.

OK, so it acutally IS booting. It just fails at some point within the process.

I could imagine as they're optical SATA drives, maybe the live system's 
detection logic wants to re-mount a SATA drive read-writable, but as it's an 
optical one, it fails. Can you tell exactly what the last messages on the 
screen are before/when it fails? Is it "talking" about re-mounting?

Just a wild guess ... wouldn't know how to solve it though ... maybe someone 
else has got an idea.

Guy

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