Dynebolic Help: Dvd Doesn't Finish Loading

[tgaddo]

I have an hp g60-243cl notebook pc with windows vista. 1 Year old.

New to linux. Really wanted to give LiVES Video Editor a tryout. The dyne:bolic bootable dvd option sounded great. I’m embarrased to say I can’t even get started. The dvd begins to boot, scrolls a ton of loading tasks past the screen and stops with the message that I am floating in limbo.

What I’ve done so far:

While still in Windows
Downloaded dynebolic 2.5.2 and burned an image on a dvd.
Copied the “dyne” directory to C:/

When booting from the dvd I get to the point where I have a [d:b]/# prompt.
Above that is displayed 7 available commands. Above that the statement:
You are floating in limbo.
At the top of the screen are several lines of:
Cat:/boot/volumns: no such file or directory could be found. Above that:
Root:[!] no device containing the dynebolic system has been detected.

I’m not a superuser, but I thought I could get past this. I spent all day yesterday searching through linux forums, found plenty of dead ends but couldn’t find anything that mentioned that limbo condition.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd greatly appriciate it.

Thanks, Tim

[jaromil]

Hi Tim,

"floating in limbo" probably means that the OS did not recognize any DVD-reader on the computer, probably because the on-board controller is too new? since you mention your laptop is 1 year old, this appears quite possible to me.

Please note that dyne:bolic is meant to run smooth on old computers to be able to recycle them, this is one of the core feature of the system and if you don't need it there are many others to choose for your newest hardware, as for instance pure:dyne which is made ready for multimedia as well: puredyne.goto10.org (sorry i can't post urls)

If you still want to try out dyne:bolic with Lives, since it comes ready equipped with that, then i suggest you use QEMU or another emulator to run it into a virtual machine, that also works pretty well for a system that doesn't utilizes many resources...

happy hacking!

-jrml

[tgaddo]

Hey thanks for the reply jmrl. I'll give your puredyne idea a try this weekend. I didn't know about dynebolic being primarily for "old computers". I actually have an old one sitting in a box, runs win98. It might be fun to see if I can get some use out of it with dynebolic. Thanks again for the tip. Tim

[tgaddo]

JMRL,

I just wanted to say thanks again for your reply. It gave me the jump start I needed. I had time last night to d/l puredyne and get it running from a dvd.

Thanks again, Tim