boot error - can anyone help
i recently downloaded bt final and when i try to boot off it i get:
ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 isolinux: image checksum error,sorry...
Boot failedress a key to retry..
ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 isolinux: Found something at drive = 00
and it freezes
i have not changed the iso since it was downloaded and i am running win xp sp1
any help would be good
thanks
Yoma819
Sounds like a bad ISO. You might want to try downloading it again, without any download managers, and re-writing it.Originally Posted by yoma819
i recently downloaded bt final and when i try to boot off it i get:
ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 isolinux: image checksum error,sorry...
Boot failed
ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 isolinux: Found something at drive = 00
and it freezes
i have not changed the iso since it was downloaded and i am running win xp sp1
any help would be good
thanks
Yoma819
A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.
i havent been using a download manager
and my second attempt was downloaded around a friends house
so i know its not my internet connection and on top of that i have just tryed it on a friends pc and it works!
what else do you think it could be?
Did you check the backtrack wiki to see if your machine was on the commpatability list?
There's your problem. The calculated md5 checksum didn't match.i recently downloaded bt final and when i try to boot off it i get:
ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 isolinux: image checksum error,sorry...
Boot failed
This may occur if you downloaded the ISO using a download manager vice straight from HTTP. Also, an error could have occured during the burning process. It is advisable to burn the ISO at a slow rate (i.e., 4x).
"\x74\x68\x65\x70\x72\x65\x7a\x39\x38";
my internet connection is abit dodgy at times where can i find out if my machine is compatible or not
it is just a standard intel p4!
thanks
Yoma
hereit is. I also pm it to you in response to yours
ok have got my 1 gig usb drive (eventually) lol
used the program suggested and it seems to have worked
only i cant test it because my computer does not seem to want to recognize it as a devise on startup!
excuse me while i kill myself through frustraion!
i have changed the boot order to start looking for removable first then cd then hd last
no result so i used the boot loader that comes with my bios and selected removable and
yes you guessed it
no device found
help
hi i got my comp to recognize my usb stick
great i thought this has got to work the md5 checksum is correct it cannot fail.
right boot: syslinux
i got invalid or corrupt kernel image
yay it failed
...again
i am giving it one last chance.
any ideas
thanks
-yoma
yay
i got it to work
for some reason instead of typing syslinux i just pushed the enter button and it booted up
if anyone wants to know any more details about the problem and how it was fixed then pm or post!
thanks to everyone for helping i got there eventually!
especially to balding_parrot
thanks again
-Yoma
p.s now i juswt have to get back into linux
it has been about 2 years
lol
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