Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 182147
FC5T3 i386 won't boot on Emachines T5026
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:24 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: FC5T3 i386 won't boot on Emachines T5026 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5T3 i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to boot burned FC5T3 i386 dvd on an Emachines T5026 2. 3. Actual Results: Failure to boot with the message: Unknown keyword in config file. boot: Could not find kernel image: Linux Expected Results: Boot into Anaconda. Additional info: CPU info on the T5026: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 3067.178 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6140.89 Same burned DVD booted on an HP Pavilion ZE2108WM Notebook.
I am having the same symptoms on my Compal Cl-50 laptop (that has been running Fedora Core 4-3-2-1 fine).
After researching these symptoms on the isolinux mailing list (http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/): "Unknown keyword in config file", and "Could not findkernel image" there seem to be many people having similar symptoms on their non-Fedora systems too. There are many comments about being BIOS related, but I could not find any definitive answer, because none of the responses described what the BIOS problem might be. One person suggested a workaround that he found for his system, and that worked for me on test 3. ...When you enter 'linux' during the install bootstrap time, it sort of activates macros in Isolinux's config file that effectively causes Isolinux to invoke: /isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img By entering this manually at the 'boot:' prompt, I could still boot off of both the CD and DVD distribution media, and continue the installation process. (Of course I had anaconda fail and create a stack trace many times, and had other issues, but at least I could boot the installation process.)
As the originator of this bug I can confirms that entering "/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img" at the boot prompt does in fact initiate the boot and allows me to proceed with the installation without incident on my Emachines T5026 using the FC5 test 3 DVD.
Thank you for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178143 ***