[gobolinux-users] Inability to boot LiveCD 013

[Michael Homer]

On 4/2/07, twykke at gmail.com <twykke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings, fellow humans.
>
> I am having the strangest problem.  I took a GoboLinux i686 013 .iso,
> checked its MD5 hash, and burned it to one, then another CD-RW.  With
> both CDs I have had the same problem: the process of booting up stalls
> at one point or another.
>
> The first time, it hung at Setting Date & Time.  The second time, the
> SquashFS started listing off hundreds of errors.  The third time, it
> was udev_run_devd which screamed at me until I had to do a hard
> reboot.  And so it went, with each attempt failing at a different
> spot.  I have tried it 7 times.
>
> My computer is quite vanilla, it's an unmodified Packard Bell.  Does
> anyone have a thought on what is wrong?
I had the same problem; I chalked it up to a dodgy CD drive and did a
manual install. Possibly it's the same for you. Or possibly there is
an actual problem with the ISO. I didn't investigate much beyond
seeing how many errors I could tease out of it.

Do other LiveCDs give you errors too?

If you have another bootable CD drive somewhere you could use, give it
a try; otherwise, I wrote up some instructions in a post a month or
two back when I had the same trouble outlining how I did my manual
install. Check the archives for it and it'll get you up and running if
you want to install it; if you just want to try the LiveCD I guess you
can give qemu a go.
-Michael