[lug] KRUD initrd.img boot failure

[Michael Deck]

Sean, 

Thanks for the note. Marginal hardware is definitely a possibility. This is 
an old Micron Millenium Mme 200 box with some kind of stock Hitachi CDR drive 
and a recent mobo (Asus A7V) transplant. However, I can boot Mandrake 7.2 CD 
just fine and get as far as the challenge for the license (pretty deep into 
graphical install). 

I also tried booting DOS and then using autoboot but that failed too, "Abort, 
Retry, Fail' after 3 rows of dots in initrd.img. 

I'm not dead-set on installing from CD and I have some free HDD space to play 
with, so if there is another alternative here, I'd be happy with that. What 
I'm trying to do is replace my Mdk7.2 system with KRUD. After that I can just 
do upgrades from KRUD so the hardware wierdness may not matter. 

Can I copy the whole thing onto a HDD partition somewhere and boot the 
installer from LILO? What do the LILO lines look like? 

Can I run the installer some other way, like from a shell, and get the 
upgrade started? 

Maybe I can do all this with RPM. I'd like to be able to call this a 'fresh' 
install for purposes of things like tripwire. 

TIA,
  Mike

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 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

-- 


Michael Deck

Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.