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Indy'spup · Joined: 11 May 2011 Posts: 50 Location: SoCal

Newest ISOLINUX 4.3 as used in puppy 5.2.5 hangs on first line of text echoed to screen and will not continue to successful boot.

Equipment effected: Dell Inspiron 7500
Puppy 5.2.5 & Ubuntu 11.04 (and other distro's using Isolinux 4.x)

A workaround is to replace the 4.x version of isolinux (and sometimes the config file) with any 3.x version as found in earlier puppies (eg. 4.3.1)

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I saw this symptom on my Intel D510MO as well. Hung right in the beginning. Thought it was a different issue at first, the problem with booting while there is no hard drive in the system. Haven't tried the earlier ISOLINUX yet, thanks for the tip.

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I was unable to try this because I can't do anything to the original 525 ldlinux.sys. Can't rename it, delete it, chmod it, anything! Even if I boot 431 and mount the 525 flash drive, I still can't mess with that file! Mad