going bonkers trying to install fc-5
Stanton Finley
stanfinley at comcast.net
Mon Jun 19 00:09:51 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here. I had
> a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set.
> Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither
> computer would "see" the boot disk. Thought, "oh, well." Needed a new
> box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday. Burned fc-5 iso
> disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is
> present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any
> changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot
> from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery
> disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't
> figure out what I might be doing wrong. Can a disk checkout hash-wise
> and still be bad? What am I missing here? Could it be the windows
> software I am using to burn with?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Peter
>
Try entering "/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img" (without
the quotes of course) at the boot prompt.
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Stanton Finley
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