Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 163464
Impossible to boot from cd
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:10 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Impossible to boot from FC4-i386-disc1 after having copying the iso image to a cd. The cd was tested with another computer and received the score "pass". The computer I try to boot the cd from is a Compaq presario model SR1334NX with 1 meg RAM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD 2. 3. Actual Results: Panic Kernel message and computer freeze after trying "linux mediacheck". Even when not trying "linux mediachec", cd fail to boot using the "enter" command. The cd is ok when I try with another computer. Additional info: Is there another way of booting from that cd?
I'm also getting a kernel panic during install. I'm using the x86-64 DVD. If at the boot: prompt I simply press return or enter linux mediacheck, during the startup I see Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel then it pauses and some trace info is displayed. If I first enter an invalid command asdfghjkl at the boot: prompt, I get the message 'could not find kernel image: asdfghjkl', which makes sense, and then the installation will work. At this point linux mediacheck worked and the DVD passed the check. I then completed an upgrade from FC2 to FC4. I've repeated the kernel panic failures and asdfghjkl/linux mediacheck successes several times. I've got a Tyan S2885ANRF motherboard and a GeForceFX 5200 video card. I'm installing from the FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso DVD.
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm also getting a kernel panic during install. I'm using the x86-64 DVD. > If at the boot: prompt I simply press return or enter linux mediacheck, during > the startup I see > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > then it pauses and some trace info is displayed. > If I first enter an invalid command asdfghjkl at the boot: prompt, I get the > message 'could not find kernel image: asdfghjkl', which makes sense, and then > the installation will work. At this point linux mediacheck worked and the DVD > passed the check. I then completed an upgrade from FC2 to FC4. I've repeated the > kernel panic failures and asdfghjkl/linux mediacheck successes several times. > I've got a Tyan S2885ANRF motherboard and a GeForceFX 5200 video card. I'm > installing from the FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso DVD. Thanks Dean, Your idea of entering garbage after the boot: prompt worked fine! I was able to install FC4 whitout any problem. Do you know of a reason why we have to do that in order to boot from the CD? Regards, Jacques
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159026 ***