[ale] install disk of Fedcore Core Test2

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 20:27, Jim Philips wrote:
> Every one of the options I try ends with the same error, whether I start 
> with nothing or "linux mediacheck" or "linux ide=nodma". It gets to  
> vmlinuz, then initrd.img and then I get the error. So, I can't even do a 
> media check.

You need to double check the md5sum for each disk image.
> 
> Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> >You'll definitely want to run "linux mediacheck" from the "boot:"
> >prompt before doing anything else.  Assuming that all four discs check out,
> >try "linux ide=nodma" to turn off the CD-ROM DMA while installing.
> >
> >FWIW, I successfully installed FC2T2 on an old ThinkPad 600E over the
> >weekend.
> >
> >On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:44:52PM -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I burned all of my CD's, including a boot CD. When I try to boot from 
> >>the CD, everything starts out okay. I select graphical install and it 
> >>grinds a bit, then I get this:
> >>
> >>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> >>invalid compressed format (err=1)
> >>VFS: Cannot open device "<NULL>" unknown block (8,3)
> >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> >>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable  to mount root fs on unknown block (8,3)
> >>
> >>I am having my doubts about this hard drive, but I hope that isn't the 
> >>issue. Anyone have any ideas?
> >>    
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