[lug] KRUD initrd.img boot failure

[Michael Deck]

At 01:48 PM 10/16/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:23:45AM -0600, Michael Deck wrote:
> >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).
>
>The difference likely being that KRUD is on 700MB CDs.  Some drives (mostly
>much older, probably 1X CD drives) can't read them.  We've had a handful of
>people with this problem, but the *VAST* majority of drives don't have this
>problem and we've kind of needed the space in the past...

I can try swapping out the CD. This isn't *that* old a CD drive, but I do 
have a 2x/6x CD-RW drive that I can swap in and try. And if it works, I 
have CDRW capability.


>But you said it wouldn't boot the floppy either?  Hmm...
>
> >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.
> >
>
>Well, if the CDs can be copied to a disc partition, you can install from
>that...  I think the 7.1 installer wants the ISOs directly to be available,
>rather than just the files in the file-system.  Use "dd" to suck the full
>images off.
>
>Alternately, there's a net install.  Just copy both CDs into the same
>directory and use NFS, FTP, or HTTP to snag from there.
>
>Sean
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>Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.