From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 Description of problem: Having created an install floppy using rawrite and boot.img, the installer always returns "Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue". How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Requires specific computer 2. Boot with floppy created using rawrite and boot.img 3. Actual Results: The initial 'welcome' screen appears. Which ever selection is made the result is the message "Loading vmlinuz...", followed by the "Boot failed:" message. Expected Results: If I boot a 7.0 install disk, there appears to be another step which does not occur on 7.1. In that case the system reports "Loading initrd.img..." before the "Loading vmlinuz...". Additional info: The hardware is a Digital Celebris GL 5133ST with 32MB RAM, 1GB SCSI disk and CDROM. The same boot floppy works on other PC's. The 7.0 floppy works on the problem PC.
This bug could be related to bug #37592, but this problem seems to happen much earlier than that one. Does this boot disk work on other machines?
On the problem machine, the installer does not get as far as detecting hardware of any kind, so it is different to #37592. I've tried the same floppy on three other machines (one IDE based, one with SCSI U2W on a Supermicro motherboard, and one with an Adaptec 2940 card) and the floppy works correctly. However on these machines the floppy does perform the 'Loading initrd.img' step, and does not on the problem machine. Also having had the 7.0 floppy work, it seems unlikely that it is a hardware problem with the floppy drive.
This sounds like a kernel issue to me. There seem to be various problems with the 2.4 kernel and Digital Celebris machines. Changing component
I have a similar problem with ver. 7.2 After a CD-ROM installation I can't boot with the floppy. My system was working with the 7.0. I also try to upgrade 7.0 > 7.2 but I received always the same error"disk failed". My computer hardware: Pentium 4 1500 MHz 512 RAM hda Maxtor 20 Gb UDMA5 >> for Win hdb Maxtor 20 Gb UDMA5 >> for Linux Motherboard ASUS P4B For more info please ppmanca
I am having the same problem with a Asus P4B we just got in. I have a kickstart disk I made which always gives "Boot failed". The disk will boot correctly on other machines in the office. I tried flashing the BIOS up to the most recent version, but that hasn't helped. I can boot a win98/DOS floppy fine. Any ideas on this?
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