Device not ready yet? Delaying x seconds.

[fanthom]

my guess is that you have some older Kiosk burned somewhere (hd, usb or even in second CD bay) and this older version gets found by instead of the latest one (sgn does not match and you get a fail)

i have updated ISO + wizard on the server (without version bump) and hopefully this issue is resolved now.
please try and let us know.

if version produced by the wizard wont work (for some reason) then please also try default one:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/i486/packages/k ... 4-i486.iso

[jmalon]

Did you try to boot our default Kiosk 2.0.4 ISO on this PC? -- Yes, same error message when trying to boot on the Optiplex 755. The same CD boots successfully on the IBM ThinkCentre 8090-22U. The version is porteus-kiosk-v2.0.4-i486.iso 2013-Jun-06 11:30:06.

In the Optiplex 755, I've verified I can boot other CDs including Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Linux Mint 15 MATE (64-bit), Memtest 86+, and Webconverger 9.1.

The hardware is an Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 2.0 Ghz with 7 GB of memory - to be my desktop system one of these days.

[jmalon]

I just downloaded the latest wizard and customized it. The ISO image boots in Virtualbox. The CD boots in the IBM but not in the 755.

In the 755, the hard drive is disconnected and turned off in the BIOS. There are no USB devices connected to it and no other CD-ROM devices, so there are no other boot devices.

The CD-ROM drive is SATA based. I wonder if that makes a difference?

[jmalon]

Making progress...

I've dd'ed the customized image to a flash drive and booted it on the 755. I've disabled the SATA CD-ROM drive in the BIOS. I power on the 755 and briefly get a "No device found AHCI BIOS not installed" message (not a PKE issue). PKE boots properly but Firefox gives me a "The server is refusing connections." message. I click "Try again" and the desired homepage comes up. After I login to Paychex a Flash button appears at the bottom of the screen (ria_core_client_bootstrap.swf) and I have to click on it to continue.

So this customized image works, but not from the CD.

[fanthom]

PKE boots properly but Firefox gives me a "The server is refusing connections." message. I click "Try again" and the desired homepage comes up.

ok - i may bring back a delay before starting Xorg to avoid this.

After I login to Paychex a Flash button appears at the bottom of the screen (ria_core_client_bootstrap.swf) and I have to click on it to continue.

you can disable flashblock addon in the wizard options

The CD boots in the IBM but not in the 755.

so it definitely must be a controller issue. lets do this test once again:
- please boot 2.0.4 on Optiplex 755
- once you get a failure please run 'blkid' and make sure you can see '/dev/sr0: LABEL="Porteus-Kiosk" TYPE="iso9660"'
- if you get it then please run:

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mkdir /tmp/test
mount /dev/sr0 /tmp/test
ls /tmp/test/porteus

please confirm that above test passes.

the thing is that i still dont get why you can do this manually and script cant (possible a delay is needed to initialize CD but we have 10 seconds which should be enough).

thanks.

[jmalon]

so it definitely must be a controller issue. lets do this test once again:
- please but 2.0.4 on Optiplex 755
- once you get a failure please run 'blkid' and make sure you can see '/dev/sr0: LABEL="Porteus-Kiosk" TYPE="iso9660"'
- if you get it then please run:

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mkdir /tmp/test
mount /dev/sr0 /tmp/test
ls /tmp/test/porteus

please confirm that above test passes.

the thing is that i still dont get why you can do this manually and script cant (possible a delay is needed to initialize CD but we have 10 seconds which should be enough).

1. The blkid command returns /dev/sr0: LABEL="Porteus-Kiosk" TYPE="iso9660"

2. I did the following and it returns a listing of GNU_CPL, make_iso.sh, rootcopy, License.txt, modules, base, and porteus_kiosk_v2.0.4.sgn.

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mkdir /tmp/test
mount /dev/sr0 /tmp/test -----> at this point I can hear the CD-ROM drive spin up
ls /tmp/test/porteus

3. I did this with both the CD I created and the porteus_kiosk_v2.0.4-i486.iso file with the same results.

4. I don't know if this helps you any but, the BIOS on the 755 is version A19. In the BIOS, the SATA Operation mode is set to AHCI which is the factory default. Also, the CD-ROM is attached to SATA-1.

Thank you for your work on this.

[Hamza]

I'm thinking about slow device issue.