Install

[SocialistiK]

I am trying to install RedHate 7.1 on a Pentium P54C. My bios won't boot from CD so i made multiple boot floppies from the CD. I make it to a welcom text screen that asks for types of install expert, text, ect... and a boot:_ prompt. opon selection it states "Loading initrd.img..." My problem is that after a short lag it spits out that the boot has failed: please change disks and press a key. I have tried diff floppies to eliminate the possibilities damaged cluster. Also, when I typed vmlinuz it spit out a bunch of data then locked up. I apprieciate any response. Thanks

P.S I also tried: linux hdc=cdrom with no luck

[Ardith]

Does it say why the boot failed? It would be helpful if you could post at least some of the error messages.

Ardith

[SocialistiK]

to clerify the "error message": boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.

[Ardith]

Okay. If the CD is still set up in the same way as my 6.0 CD, in the dosutils directory there should be a program called loadlin. Get a Windows boot disk and boot from that, enabling CD-ROM support. Then run:

d:\loadlin d:\images\boot.img rw root=/dev/ram load_ramdisk=1

where d: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.

If this doesn't work, I'm afraid I'm at the end of my ideas. <g>

Ardith