On 03/23/12 22:08, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Thats the whole point of this exercise - I can't, no cdrom: its a netbook.
I hoped that you had a USB attachable optical drive in reach for development.
Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;)
The reality is I don't have a working CDROM unless its builtin. Haven't
needed one for years now, so no point. The servers and desktops have one
as well, but most are not working very well anymore due to non use - too
much bump and not enough grind. The laptops give me what I need atm.
My disk worked in VBox, so I'm sure it is just a netbook thing. I
also use that disk as my "install" disk, so I'm not sure exactly what
partitions been on it now, it has been used for FreeBSD, PC-BSD, Linux
distros, etc.
After copying the ISO image to the base device (/dev/da0 rather than
/dev/da0s1), it now carries the isohybrid MBR which marks a single DOS
partition and leaves the rest of the disk unclaimed. A partition editor
should be able to push the end of the partition to the next 1 MiB boundary,
without altering the partition content.
But as said, it is unlikely that this misalignement of the partition end
is the cause. The observable state of ISOLINUX rather points to a problem
between hardware, firmware, and the SYSLINUX programs.
My thoughts exactly. Could be Acer, netbook firmware, or the Atom I'd
say (or a combination of these).
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