Avira Rescue CD not working after update & superfluous files
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:39 am
Hi!
This is my first post, so I'd like to say "Hi!".
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I thought the problem belongs in this subforum. Anyway, I've just updated Avira Rescue System on my custom UBCD5.03, using the Windows CMD file. The update process finished without errors. The Rescue System won't boot however, it shuts down with a "Self-Check failed" message. The error message should refer to the file which failed the check, but instead of a filename there's only a space character. I've downloaded the original ISO from the Avira site, and it boots fine. A Google search found some mentions of the error message, but no solution.
I've tried to manually find the source of the problem and went on and byte-by-byte compared the contents of the original ISO with the updated files in UBCD. I've found files in the UBCD "antivir" directory that are not in the original ISO. The combined filesize was something about 30 MB, which is quite substantial when trying to fit UBCD + some addons on a standard CD or smaller medium. I've deleted the additional files and copied some additional files from the original ISO which were missing/outdated in UBCD, but the rescue system still won't boot.
Questions:
1) is this a known problem, and is there a way of fixing it?
2) could you update the Avira update script for future UBCD versions to take care of the superfluous files?
This is my first post, so I'd like to say "Hi!".
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I thought the problem belongs in this subforum. Anyway, I've just updated Avira Rescue System on my custom UBCD5.03, using the Windows CMD file. The update process finished without errors. The Rescue System won't boot however, it shuts down with a "Self-Check failed" message. The error message should refer to the file which failed the check, but instead of a filename there's only a space character. I've downloaded the original ISO from the Avira site, and it boots fine. A Google search found some mentions of the error message, but no solution.
I've tried to manually find the source of the problem and went on and byte-by-byte compared the contents of the original ISO with the updated files in UBCD. I've found files in the UBCD "antivir" directory that are not in the original ISO. The combined filesize was something about 30 MB, which is quite substantial when trying to fit UBCD + some addons on a standard CD or smaller medium. I've deleted the additional files and copied some additional files from the original ISO which were missing/outdated in UBCD, but the rescue system still won't boot.
Questions:
1) is this a known problem, and is there a way of fixing it?
2) could you update the Avira update script for future UBCD versions to take care of the superfluous files?