[Bio-Linux] odd and confounding behavior with BioLinux distros 5 and 6

[Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga]

Hi John.

If you misburn the ISO it will fall back to the next available boot drive.

Perhaps you can consult a local linux user group? :-)

On 4/17/11 4:29 PM, John Bradsher wrote:
> Hello Tony:
> 
> Yes, the sequence and process as you see it in the last response is
> exactly what I'd expect should happen. But, alas, that doesn't happen,
> which is the source of my confusion. I've entered the BIOS several times
> and specified the boot order, but I always get the same thing: booting
> only to ubuntu 10.10, even with the bio-linux 5 iso in the boot drive.
> Any insights would be welcome.
> Thanks,
> 
> John Bradsher
> 
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Tony Travis <a.travis at abdn.ac.uk
> <mailto:a.travis at abdn.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On 16/04/11 22:57, John Bradsher wrote:
> 
>         Hello Tony:
>         Well, thanks for the confirmation on that. I had suspected this,
>         even if
>         some of the specs for the Pentium 4 suggest that it has the 64-bit
>         architecture.
> 
> 
>     Hi, John.
> 
>     Sorry, I should have said that *most* Pentium 4's are 32-bit, and I
>     suspect that your's is a 32-bit one. Intel did ship versions of the
>     Pentium 4 with 64-bit extensions and, the 'Core' chipsets are
>     derived from Pentium processors anyway. You are quite right that
>     some of the 'high-end' Pentium 4's were in fact 64-bit, but not the
>     ones used in 'commodity' PC's. They were used in high-end
>     workstations or servers.
> 
> 
>         However, the real problem comes from being unable to boot from
>         the disk
>         with the BL5 iso image. As I stated before, I can only imagine
>         that this
>         results from having the more recent ubuntu 10.10 kernel running
>         on the
>         Pentium 4 machine. Is there any reason this should happen? Is
>         there any
>         workaround for the problem?
> 
> 
>     I'm a bit confused, because if you boot off the Bio-Linux 5 'live'
>     DVD, you will be running a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 kernel even if you
>     have a 10.10 kernel installed on your hard disk. The DVD does not
>     read files off the hard disk. All it does is use the swap file if
>     one is present.
> 
> 
>     HTH,
> 
>      Tony.
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