FC5 Boot Issue?

Anthony Messina amessina at messinet.com
Sun Mar 19 22:06:25 UTC 2006


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?
> 
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> 
> 
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> 

well, jim, there have been a few reports at fedoraforum.org of users 
having this issue with notebooks, which isn't a good sign.  but why 
don't you wait to tell us about it until tomorrow afternoon, when fc5 is 
officially released?

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