Boot failure on FC4 install

[Matthew Saltzman]

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.
>

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs