Following myself up:
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Booting from CD 1 produces the boot screen. Pressing Enter produces:
ISOLINUX 3.08 2005-05-19 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying
to wing it...
isolinux: Found something at drive=9F
isolinux: Found something at drive=81
isolinux: Found something at drive=80
isolinux: Looks like it might be right, continuing...
isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...
Boot failed: press a key to retry...
This happens with a CD1 that burned correctly and has been used to install on
two other machines. It also happens with a CD burned with boot.iso from the
images/ directory on the same drive I'm booting from. Same result booting
with "linux nodma".
The machine is an Athlon T-Bird on an ASUS A7V motherboard. The IDE
controller (hard disk) is a Promise Ultra-100. The SCSI controller (CD-ROM
and <blush> SyJet drive) is a BusLogic BT-958.
This is definitely related to the SCSI controller or devices. A similar
machine with an IDE CD-ROM boots with no problem.
Suggestions?
Still open to suggestions or an answer to the question:
Why did FC3 work fine where FC4 fails so miserably?
TIA.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
