RE: installing rh 7.0

["Woods, Will" <Will Woods compaq com>]

Hey all.. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Moeller [mailto:sebastian.moeller@lur.rwth-aachen.de]
>
> 	Well this is were the trouble starts. His aboot fails while
> loading the kernel. It is in disk.c where load_kernel(void) 
> fails. It is
> the following which produces the error:	

[snip]

This is an SRM error, not an aboot error. The error is returned by SRM after
the "read device" callback fails. Checking Claes' message, I see:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sm6tkt@netscape.net [mailto:sm6tkt@netscape.net]
[snip]
> cb_open: failed IDE 0 208 1 1 1 0 0, dqb1.1.1.208.0
> aboot: unable to open boot device 'IDE 0 208 1 1 1 0 0': 
> c000000000000000
> aboot: kernel load failed (-1)

the error response [c000000000000000] is "failure" + "EOT or logical end of
device encountered". So SRM thinks it's hit the end of the disk without
finding what it was looking for.

So, either the CD is bad or SRM has some problems. It looks like your SRM is
up-to-date, so this shouldn't be the trouble. My money's on "Bad CD".

Try burning a new CD, preferably a CD-R. (It really doesn't matter whether
you use a CD-R or CD-RW; if your CD-ROM drive didn't like CD-RW's, it
wouldn't have even gotten to aboot.) Make sure you're burning it as a ISO
filesystem image, not a Joliet image. 

If all else fails, try booting from floppy. 

Incidentally, I've been doing a lot of work on aboot here lately, so I think
I might take the aboot maintainer crown from  David Huggins, who seems to
have disappeared.. expect a new version in a little while.

Will Woods <will.woods@compaq.com>
Alpha Technology Solutions Group
Compaq Computer Corp