Cannot boot a liveCD

Hi Everyone,
I have a PIV with 2.4GHz and 1GB RAM system. I am new to Linux and I want to try using it. I came across Granular 1.0 liveCD from a Magazine and I want to install it to my system. But I got problem because the system could not load the live CD. I tried the same in my office and it work fine. Can anybody help me?
P.S: I tried to boot using TEXT. The Screen end till it shows:
............ loop image                /dev/hdd

First welcome to Granular

You have something going on with your drives, and you'll have to offer some more information on your set up.

Where is says /dev/hdd is a problem. hdd stands for your drive number, and normally it would read hda

And what that stands for is the hd is hard drive, and a would be the first hard drive or partition.

So if you're new to linux, then I'd doubt you have your drive partitioned already. So if you do, can you list what
partitions you have, and how you're trying to run the cd. Cause this does not really add up. And we'd be just guessing
if we tried to help from the information you've provided.

Chris

Hi Everyone,
I have a PIV with 2.4GHz and 1GB RAM system. I am new to Linux and I want to try using it. I came across Granular 1.0 liveCD from a Magazine and I want to install it to my system. But I got problem because the system could not load the live CD. I tried the same in my office and it work fine. Can anybody help me?
P.S: I tried to boot using TEXT. The Screen end till it shows:
............ loop image                /dev/hdd

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your response.
Here are few details for my PC:
Pentium IV processor with 2.4Ghz. 1 GB RAM recently upgraded from 512 MB RAM.
40 GB Hard Disk divided into 4 partitions with 10 GB each. 3 partitions are formatted with NTFS File system and I am using these with Windows xp as Drive C, D and E.
I leave one partition for using any Linux OS because I want to try using it.
3 Optical Drives: DVD ROM, CD RW and DVD RW with DVD ROM acted as Primary Slaves Drive.
(Primary Master Drive: HDD, Primary Slave Drive: DVD ROM, Secondary Master Drive: CD RW, Secondary Slave Drive: DVD RW)
I partitioned my Hard Disk using "gparted" available with a Vector Linux Live CD.
I have tried some Linux Distros in my system so far. Some of them works fine and some other, don't.
- Linux Mint: OK
- OpenSuse 11.1: OK
- Vector Linux: Crash after Installation
- Damn Small Linux: The mouse pointer did not move as soon as it boot
- Fedora 10: Cannot boot
- Sabayon4: Cannot boot
- ubuntu: OK
- kubuntu: OK
I got this Granular from a Digit Magazine. I tried using it in my office and it is OK. I really like it and the features that are available with it so I want to try it at home.
The problem is like this:
I boot my system from CD. The splash screen show GRANULAR and all those options like Memtest, Copy2Ram, etc.
I select GRANULAR and press enter. Next screen show with progress bar. It load something to about 10% and stop forever.
Then I tried to use through Safeboot. It shows all those details which I cannot understand (I'm not a programmer, I told you). Then that screen come. The one which had the user option (to log on as root or guest etc.). I enter "root" and then the PC hanged. I have no option but to force Shutdown the PC.
Then I tried using TEXT (after pressing F3 twice), instead of that 1024×768 screen resolution. It, again shows those details and then it came to halt as soon at it shows something like "...  loom image:       /dev/hdd" I don't know what it mean so I have to, again force Shutdown the PC.
PLEASE HELP ME! BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO USE GRANULAR AS IT HAVE THE FEATURES THAT I LIKE.
Thanks.

I'm guessing it can't find the loop image, but I'll have to look at this later tonight. It may not be your partitions, it could be your cd drives.

khunimei,

It seems Granular is either being incompatible with some of your hardware or the ISO image was not correctly burned or perhaps the ISO was a corrupt download?

khunimei,

It seems Granular is either being incompatible with some of your hardware or the ISO image was not correctly burned or perhaps the ISO was a corrupt download?

I think I would try a new ISO first  Burn it at a lower speed. Then don't use all the options that you are using to boot.....for now, just let the LiveCD go thru its defaults and see if that gets you somewhere.

Rich

i do not think that the ISO image is corrupt because i use the same cd at my office and it's fine.
what is a loop image?
could it because of the absence of a video card?
what is the minimum system requirement for installing GRANULAR?
THANKS FOR ALL THOSE WHO TRY TO HELP.
khunimei

i do not think that the ISO image is corrupt because i use the same cd at my office and it's fine.
what is a loop image?
could it because of the absence of a video card?
what is the minimum system requirement for installing GRANULAR?
THANKS FOR ALL THOSE WHO TRY TO HELP.
khunimei

The loop image is the actual compressed image of the live Granular system. Apart from the loop image, the livecd contains the necessary files needed to boot, such as stripped down versions of the kernel and the GRUB. The GRUB is what you see when you are presented with the boot menu. After choosing an option from that menu, the control passes on to the kernel, which in turn tries to mount the loop image to start the live operating system.

Errors such as yours occur when either their is an incompatibility with between the livecd and system hardware, or the download was corrupt.

Min. sys. requirements:
http://wiki.granularlinux.com/en/Granular_1.0_Release_Notes#System_Requirements