Re: RH 7.1 installation on PWS 500a

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Terry A. Bowling wrote:
>
> >>> boot dka0 -fl h
> 
> The second will cause aboot to error out at which point it will give
> you a menu to do a variety of things.  Such as list all of the
> predefined boot options the RH has preconfigured for you.

It won't error-out if you pass a flag of "i" (stands for "interactive" :-).

> My system is settup so that everytime I boot, I can choose from 3
> different kernels and such, and the only thing I do differently is
> use a different number for the -fl flag.  Drastically reducing pilot
> error typos...

Unfortunately, he doesn't have any alternate kernels on the install CD...

> > The boot command gives me the following error
> >
> > aboot:  no disklabel found
> > ISO:  Max Size: 332353  Log zone size:  2048
> > ISO:  First datazone: 28  Root inode number 57344
> > aboot: loading compressed kernels/vmlinux.gz ...
> >
> >  unzip: crc error
> > aboot: loading uncompressed kernels/vmlinux.gz
> > welcome to aboot 0.7
> > aboot>

This looks like a bad CD, even though it does get aboot off it.  If
you're unwilling/unable to burn another, try getting the two floppy
images off it (on another system) and try that way. You may find that
that other system can't read (parts of) the CD either.

Good luck.

--Jay++

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