Thank you for the suggestions. I did try to boot the machine with a blank floppy. In my case the machine just refused to boot at all. My BIOS setting is A, then CD then hard-disk C. There is no other setting with CD. Over the weekend I will try on my real router. I could not do that now because it is deep behind a big and heavy couch and besides I disconnect all cables to the CD.
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Binh Do; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michael D. Schleif Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] RE: Dachstein-CD-rc2 available I just burned rc3 and shoved it in the router. I received the "Run Level" prompt. I rebooted with a blank floppy, and the router starts up properly. I shoved the CD in my PC with a harddrive. I received the "Run Level" prompt. I rebooted this PC with a blank floppy and still received the prompt. So you have to have the correct hardware configuration and even with the correct configuration, you have to have a blank floppy, when first configuring the CD router. In normal operation you will also have to have a floppy for your configuration files or you will receive the "Run Level" prompt. I hope this clears up what I wrote earlier, Greg Greg Morgan wrote: > > Binh Do and Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > > Binh Do wrote: > > > > > > Hi Charles, > > > > > > I would like to try the CD version so I burnt the ISO file (rc1 I think) but > > > I cannot go to the login prompt. It stops in the middle asking something > > > about "Run Level". I tried on two machines and got same result. Those > > > machines are running other OSes and have hard disks. > > I received "Run Level" prompt on the first Dachstein-CD release. I > cannot remember if it was my network card driver or the hardware > configuration. But here's a clue: "hard disks". The linux kernel will > detect all ide drives. I presume you have hda; a C: drive; that is > primary master on ide channel one for your hard drive and hdc; a D: > drive; that is a primary haster on ide channel two for your cdrom in > both of the machines you tried this on. I did the same on one of the > Windows boxes I have--no luck. Dachstein keeps with the LEAF/LRP reboot > security philosophy. This idea is to have write protected disks and > minimize having hard drives that could be comprimised. If you have an > issue with the firewall you reboot from the readonly media and the ram > drive is reimaged with a fresh OS. Hence, the Dachstein-CD > configuration presumes that you have one or two floppies and your CD > drive as the first primary on your first IDE channel, hda or C:. i.e. > mimimal hardware in your LEAF box. I finally tested the CD on my LEAF > box that has two floppies and an hda cdrom drive. It worked properly. > > If this doesn't help, Michael is pointing you to BIOS and boot > configuration issues that you will have to solve. Charles has a write > up in the readme.txt file. > > > > > > > Should I change anything on the CD before writing? > > > > Place a formatted, empty floppy in the floppy drive and reboot. > > > > Does this make a difference? > > > > -- > > > > Best Regards, > > > > mds > > mds resource > > 888.250.3987 > > Hope this helps, > Greg _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
