[ale] Devil of a time with Devil-Linux

[Stephen Cristol]

On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> Have you checked that the CD is good?  Can you read it from another  
> system?

Michael,

Thanks for the suggestion. I mounted the CD on the Mac that burned  
it, but did not boot from it on another machine. Shortly after I  
started working on this, they released devil-linux 1.2.9. I  
downloaded that and went through the same sequence of events.

At this point, the plot thickens. I tried installing CentOS 4.2 on  
this box from a set of CDs that I have used for multiple successful  
installs on other boxes. After asking a few questions about my  
preferred language and keyboard, it presented a dialog telling me  
that it could not find the CD (the one that it was running from).  
This made me concerned that there was a more systemic problem with  
this box, so I installed Red Hat 7.3--the last thing this box ran  
before it spent time running Barbie games for my nieces. Red Hat 7.3  
and, later, Red Hat 9 installed without incident. I then retried  
CentOS 4.2. When it asked how I wanted to install it, I removed the  
CD and mounted it on a different box. I was then able to complete a  
net install via ftp.

I'm now scratching my head. My guess is something in newer installers  
doesn't like something about this machine. I'm hoping that if I can  
narrow down when that happens in the evolution from Fedora Core 1 to  
Fedora Core 4, I will have a useful clue. If I make progress with  
this, I will post more.

Thanks to all who have offered suggestions!

S

> On 2/24/06, Stephen Cristol < stephen at bee.net> wrote:I'm trying to  
> get devil-linux 1.2.8 (devil-linux-1.2.8-i486.tar.bz2 )
> running on a HP Brio BA200 (433 MHz P3 Celeron, 96 MB RAM). I tried
> following the docs at <http://www.devil-linux.org/documentation/1.2.x/
> ch01s02.html > without much luck.
>
> When I boot the devil-linux CD with an ext2 formated floppy in the
> drive (containing its default configuration files, etc.tar.bz2), it
> spews information too fast for me to read, gets to a welcome banner,
> and then I see (please forgive any typos, I transcribed this):
>
>    Kernel 2.4.31-grsec
>    Monting SHM FS on /shm
>    waiting until usb storage driver has initialized all devices ...
>    Loading loop AES module
>    Using /lib/modules/2.4.31-grsec/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
>    Searching for configuration media
>    Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/
> part1" ... file not found
>    Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/
> part2" ... file not found
>    Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/
> cd" ... mount failed
>    Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/floppy/0" ... success!
>    loading configuration
>    Searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM
>    Searching list: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
>    checking /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd mount failed
>    checking /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 wrong media
>    checking /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 wrong media
>    !!! Devil-Linux CD-ROM not found !!!
>
>    Please check your hardware!
>    Booting will NOT continue, you have to reset to try again.
>
> The machine will boot Windows 98 from the hard drive, Knoppix 4.0.2
> from CD (ever so slowly), and DSL (damn small linux) 2.2 from CD.
> I've run a complete pass of memtest and checked both NICs (Linksys, D-
> Link) using DSL.
>
> Anyone have experience with Devil-Linux?
>
> Thanks,
> S
>
>
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