Can you tell what is the device name of your CD drive? What is your CD drive configured as in the BIOS? I assume that your IDE devices are using an integrated motherboard controller, is that correct? How are your IDE devices named and configured in your older RedHat install? Are they all working? John --- Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <em>> <em>> Experiment 1 this afternoon. Start with boot floppy <em>> in <em>> drive and 1st install CD in CD drive. <em>> <em>> Typed 'text' for type of install. <em>> <em>> got messages loading initrd.img and vmlilnuz <em>> got uncompressing message <em>> then refererence to /sbin/loader <em>> finally exec: no such file or data <em>> <em>> <em>> Experiment 2 this afternoon, <em>> <em>> Boot floppy in drive, CD drive empty. <em>> went through similar routine, asked for CD, <em>> died with "failed to read /modules/module-info" <em>> <em>> Removed floppy and CD and system rebooted <em>> into previous Red Hat on hard drive. <em>> <em>> Choppy <em>> <em>> At 08:17 PM 5/2/01 -0700, you wrote: <em>> >I saw the same problem installing RH7.1 on a <em>> Pentium <em>> >100 with 64MB. Did a cold reboot and it worked. I <em>> was <em>> >booting from the CD though. Can you boot from the <em>> CD? <em>> >Can you supply any error messages at all? There is <em>> an <em>> >improved shell that you can use via Alt-F2, Alt-F3, <em>> >etc. Maybe you could copy dmesg or some log to a <em>> >floppy? I'll bet others are reporting this kind of <em>> >error and maybe there are some fixes. I'll try to <em>> poke <em>> >around and find out, encourage you to do the same. <em>> On <em>> >the RedHat newsgroups, mailing lists, FAQ, etc. <em>> <em>> ================================================ <em>> BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> your subscription information. <em>> ================================================ <p>__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Reply:</strong> Chopin Cusachs: "Re: [brluglist] Red Hat 7.1 Install" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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