[lug] KRUD initrd.img boot failure

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Mon Oct 15 01:03:01 MDT 2001


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:42:26AM -0600, Michael Deck wrote:
>This happens when I boot from CDROM so I suspected media or hardware. I did 
>a dd from boot.img onto a floppy and tried to boot from floppy. Same 
>message. Tried another floppy and still no go. Tried KRUD 08-01-01 and same 

Wow...  Could you have some sort of marginal hardware?  I'd try disabling
internal and external cache in the system BIOS next and see if that makes
it happier.  Do you get the same thing if you try booting a Mandrake disc,
or the like?

Sean
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