In Red Hat distribution 6.0 for i386 with all current updates (CD created from 6.0 binaries posted on ftp sites and confirmed that various mirrors have the same contents in RedHat/base/ and images/) an attempt to boot fails silently at the start of the second stage loader. Last messages on screen 3 look like follows: .... * method selection completed * state saved to /tmp * error in exec of second stage loader :-( * error:Permission denied Unfortunately after this the machine is practically dead which prevents an examination of a ramdisk. This error occured on two different machines and persisted even after replacing an updated boot.img with the one from the original distribution. This error can be worked around by forcing, from an expert mode, a loading of supp.img; after that one can proceed even if modules.img was not loaded (because of a deliberate error). A common factor may be that both machines on which this was tried have SCSI CD drive. Michal Jaegermann michal
are you downloading these files preserving all permissions as they appear on our ftp site? it sounds like the install2 binary is not marked as executable on your install media. If it is incorrect it can be assumed that alot of other necessary binaries may be incorrectly set. Reopen this bug if this is of no help.