Can't boot from Porteus ISO 64bit

Post#1 by **glestwid** » 01 Jan 2021, 21:22

Hi,

I tried all ISOs from this topic Porteus-v5.0rc2 is released, but none of them was bootable either being written to a USB drive or via Emutest http://go.novicorp.com/forwardlink/?linkid=55. What did I do wrong with these ISO? all what I get in this emulator upon boot is the following:

vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image

Post#2 by **beny** » 01 Jan 2021, 22:37

hi, when you have this message, hit tab key and you have the boot option,but not the graphic menu ,try if work for you.. or you have to grab other vesamenu.c32 the file look 150.3 KiB

Post#3 by **glestwid** » 01 Jan 2021, 22:46

Ok, this seems to be working now. But how can t ask the author to fix the broken VESAMENU.C32 ?

Post#4 by **beny** » 01 Jan 2021, 23:08

hi if you have a sylinux directory you can grab from it, the boot directory is not compressed so you can change the files inside as you wish.

Post#5 by **Blaze** » 02 Jan 2021, 08:12

What's wrong with vesamenu.c32? I don't have any issue.

Post#6 by **fulalas** » 02 Jan 2021, 09:53

I've seen this issue before. Usually the unit where Porteus is placed has either some corrupted file (running a scan disk would be nice in this case) or the boot sector wasn't properly set (running usb-stick/boot/Porteus-installer-for* would be nice in this case).

Post#7 by **glestwid** » 02 Jan 2021, 12:11

I ran Porteus-installer-for-Windows twice on 2 different USB drives, and the error was the same. Is there a MD5 checksum list for the ISOs and their content?

Post#8 by **AcnapyxoB** » 02 Jan 2021, 14:13

MD5 sums are in the Porteus-v5.0rc2 topic:
go.php?http://ublaze.ru/Porteus-v5.0rc2/md5sums.txt

Post#9 by **Ed_P** » 02 Jan 2021, 17:26

Be sure the ISO file isn't fragmented.

Post#10 by **glestwid** » 02 Jan 2021, 17:59

Ed_P wrote: ↑
02 Jan 2021, 17:26
Be sure the ISO file isn't fragmented.

How can I make sure that the files are not fragmented?

Post#11 by **Ed_P** » 03 Jan 2021, 15:09

In Windows I use Auslogics's DiskDefrag Portable. Not sure how to determine it in Linux.