[gobolinux-users] Inability to boot LiveCD 013

[magnus joh]

This is a known error. Does your computer have a Pentium 4 processor? In
that case, try to disable HyperThreading in the BIOS while installing. After
you have installed it, it is safe to turn HyperThreading on again.

2007/4/2, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com>:
>
> 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
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