Re: [sentinix-list] Sentinix .iso image booting problems

2003-12-12: Non-bootable ISO problem!
The SENTINIX 0.70.5 and Beta 01 ISO images were created with boot-size 32, but 
some picky BIOSes wants only boot-size 4. Why did I do 32? because a real 
early version of SENTINIX wouldn't boot with 4, 8 or 16 on an old PC of mine, 
but now boot-size 4 seems to be working fine on that one. 4 is what everone 
recommends, so it'll show up in SENTINIX 0.71, but until then, if you 
experience this problem and really want to test it, try booting the CD on 
whole different PC (with different BIOS) or you can always try to upgrade 
your BIOS firmware.

/Michel

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 01:35, Francis McPhail wrote:
> Hi everyone, I've had a look through the archive and have spotted
> another user who had a problem booting the .iso image of sentinix but
> didn't see a solution. I thought I might raise the question/issue again.
>
> I have now downloaded sentinix from three different mirrors each time
> the .iso file I've downloaded has come down as exactly the same size and
> has the same md5 hash. (MD5 (sentinix-0.70.5.iso) =
> 15265767531db906ada0a04123051363)
>
> However each time I burn the .iso to a CD I am unable to boot the image
> from the PC I wish to install it on. I can boot the image from my laptop
> or any other system we have in the office but not the one I wish to
> install it on. Was wondering if there is something weird about the .iso
> file that perhaps looks for the CD drive being on the primary IDE
> channel, and must be a slave etc... (Though I doubt this is the case..)
>
> Is anyone else having the same problems?
>
> As a process of elimination I've swapped out all the hard drives, and
> used a few different CD drives in the system. (Samsung, ASUS, Diamond
> (Mitsubishi)).
>
> Cheers,
> Francis McPhail
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