Erik Christiansen wrote: > But I've drawn the short straw since mine is a P8100.
can I see a lspci from that machine? > That seems odd, since it found busybox on the medium. nope; busybox is from within initrd. means.. although your machine correctly supports booting from cdrom, the linux kernel is not able to detect the cdrom. > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x24 writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision 3.20 > sr 1:0:0:0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 > ieee1394: Host added: ID: BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0040d0010035ee8a] > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > The last two lines appear 20 times in succession. That doesn't seem > right? either this is from your host systems partitions, or, the squashfs image is corrupted. to figure out which one it is, can you please boot it again (into busybox) and then see, if you can 'eject /dev/sd0'? > When I booted with "live-failsafe BOOT_DEBUG=3", the only difference > towards the end was that the first kjournald line was preceded with: failsafe does not have any influence here, as this only disables machine specific stuff (like mce, apm and acpi where some crappy bioses making linux freeze, but this isn't the case here, so failsafe is of no help anyway). -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel

