Re: RedHat boot disk installation problem.

["Jerry Guizar" <jguizar stny rr com>]

From: "Ramesh Madhavan" <ramesh crowdburst com>

>     I am trying to install RedHat Linux using a boot diskette. I am
>  doing this so that I can use a Promise UDMA66 patch to
>  make the linux installer recognize my UDMA66 hard disk.
> 
>  Anyway, I took the boot.img from the website, used rawrite and
>  created a boot disk according to the instructions.. When I used the
>  disk, the initial screen  comes up and gives me a few options for
>  text based, graphical, expert installation etc. No matter what I
> choose,
>  the next step "loading linux kernel" fails with an error "unable to
> read from
>  disk. Replace disk and enter any key" message. The same thing happens
>  with the boot.img from RedHat 6.2 and RedHat 6.1 (both from RedHat
>  website).

   I had the same problem when I upgraded to 6.2. The boot image on the
Promise site is for RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-12 I believe, unless they've
updated it). I gave up on trying to see mine. I found a site with some
patch files, but I couldn't figure out which one(s) I needed for my kernel
by looking at the names. I'm waiting for 2.4 or Promise to update their
drivers - I'd like to add a 60GB hard drive.

Jerry