On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 22:14 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:09 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > > > >>Reburning FC3 at 1x made no difference (and oddly, I get > >>the bizarre messages when I try to checksum it back on the > >>same drive!)... > >> > >>And I burnt FC4 and tried that, and it gets a kernel panic. > >> > >>Sigh. > >> > >> > >----- > >1 - let's keep this on list. > > > >2 - it sure seems as though you are having trouble with your cd writer. > > > >3 - you never answered my question about checking the md5sum/sha1sums of > >the files that you downloaded and comparing them to the checksums > >published. > > > >Craig > > > > > > > > Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to know about the > checksum of the DVD's... > > Yes, the checksums of the downloads are fine... They weren't > corrupted. > > Wish I knew how to do a "mediacheck" from a booted system... > > Also wish I knew what the PCI id's were, and which drivers had > been assigned to what (that would at least give me an idea of > what devices didn't have drivers matched to them). ---- this isn't your problem - although you think it is. Your problem is that you can't boot to a stable form - did you try burning the disk on a different computer with a different cd/dvd writer? Craig