To anyone interested,
I have recently discovered the answer to a problem I have seen on
this list wuite a bit. People have been having problems with the Mandrake
7.0 ISO not booting properly, and through experimentation I have
discovered a possible answer. I assembled a collection of various
computers and tried to install from an ISO that a friend had downloaded
and burned that didn't work for him. Consistently, the CR-ROM install
failed during the reading of the CD-ROM boot image (i.e. after the splash
screen, and the kernel demsg). I then took a CD that I had and
installed. It consistently worked on all 7 machines. I looked for a common
denominator, and I found that my friend had burned his ISO from a windows
machine, and I had burned mine under Linux (cdrecord). I then realized
that this may be the problem. I brought in a few more friends with varying
hardware and OSs, and every CD burned from windows (no metter where the
ISO was d/l'd from) froze at the same point, every linux burned CD worked
without a hitch. Please verify and post any further information.
Deven Phillips,
Cytronix Computer Services, Inc.
