FC5 Boot Issue?

Stanton Finley stanfinley at comcast.net
Mon Mar 20 00:36:58 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 16:52 -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
> Well I have spent the better part of the day trying to get FC5
> installed on my notebook.  I have the 5 CD iISO's verified and burned
> correctly. I also have the DVD ISO verified and burned correctly.  I
> have tested all the CD's & DVD  on my server and they will boot for
> the server.  I cannot however boot off of any of these disc's with my
> notebook.  at first I thought it was the media nope verified by my
> server. then I thought it was the DVD\CD-RW device on my notebook
> ,nope i can boot off 4 different Windows install CD's.  Here is  the
> error verbatim
> 
> Unknown keyword in config file.
> boot:  < this is where I hit Enter >
> Could not find kernel image: linux
> boot:
> 
> and because of the timer in the installer, this message repeats about
> every minute.  So, What am I left to do? I know its not the media or
> the hardware so what is the problem?
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Registered Linux User: #376813
> www.fedorajim.homelinux.com
> 

Type "/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img" and hit enter at
the boot prompt. This is a known bug for some hardware. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178143.
-- 
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20060319/405c6567/attachment-0001.sig>


More information about the fedora-list mailing list