Robot Monkey Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 I can't get the Kanotix LiveCD to load on one of my PC's. It hangs up with a GRUB error (25, IIRC). Works on another. I read somewhere that it'll work if I disable virusscan on boot in BIOS. Before I do that, does anyone here (hint: RyanFB) think that's the problem or have another suggestion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 Does GRUB give you an error message along with the number? A quick google search pulls up error 25 as being "unrecognized command", in which case I have no idea what would be causing it to work on one and not the other. I'd say go ahead and give the BIOS virus scan disabling a shot, and see if that fixes it (although I don't know what would make that the cause, you can always turn it back on if it doesn't work). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 For some reason, I wasn't really thinking when I wrote that. Pretty much every BIOS-based virus protection mechanism I've seen just works by preventing modifications to the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the primary master hard drive, which isn't something a LiveCD should be doing anyway, so that's probably not the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted April 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 And you're right. Still not working on this PC. I tried it on one of the laptops and it works fine, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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