FC6 pre-Release CDROM 1

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 23:22 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 04:46 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> > lør, 30 09 2006 kl. 22:26 -0400, skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> > > On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 22:06 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:13:45PM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > >  > Hi,
> > > >  > 
> > > >  > When I try to boot from the first CD: "FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso"
> > > >  > 
> > > >  > I get the following message:
> > > >  > 
> > > >  > ISOLINUX 3.11 2005-09-02  Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
> > > >  > Couold not find kernel image: linux
> > > >  > boot:
> > > >  > 
> > > >  > Please help.  What can I do now?
> > > > 
> > > > Curious. We had a bug like this bite quite a few users circa FC4.
> > > > The workaround at the time was to type in some random garbage
> > > > like ioufhdsfhgusg, hit return, then delete it and type 'linux'.
> > > > 
> > > > It would be a surprise if this bug came back, but it's worth a
> > > > shot trying the old workaround :)
> > > 
> > > That did not work.
> > > 
> > > I just noticed that the md5sum does not match.  Looks like I have to
> > > return to the torrent and start over, hmmm. ):
> > > The torrent is very slow.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [williams at bengal cdrom]$ md5sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> > > bc6187fd174ffdf55ab2fa2443d7bd59  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> > > 
> > > But the file "SHA1SUM" says:
> > > 455e02527fb793c37f129965b23814c4d0a48965
> > 
> > Bittorrent is checksummed quite heavily thus the image you have is the
> > same one pushed by the Fedora Project. If there is a checksum error it's
> > likely that you could try burning the image at a lower speed because the
> > torrent should deliver the correct thing no question.
> > 
> > This after all is one of the biggest advantages of Bittorrent, it's
> > resumable and you are ensured always to get the correct file without bit
> > errors.
> 
> Okay, this what I got from the torrent earlier today:
> =======================================================================
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ ls -lh
> total 3.3G
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 687M Sep 30 23:02 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 657M Sep 30 23:03 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 688M Sep 30 23:05 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 677M Sep 30 23:06 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 660M Sep 30 23:08 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr  699 Sep 30 23:08 SHA1SUM
> ========================================================================
> 
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> 71c128ed6b5fa2b5bfe191ac1173794c4c1e94f6  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
> b1470653dd61336b4aa0282598b6373a4df627fd  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
> 38f371a5ee27d2418d43a799897514f64b1695d0  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
> 44c717b91208c4fccb665bc272876ad06c22fe24  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
> 6ebb94f193ebc0eedf209aad3d6701d3d097cf44  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
> 
> 
> Again, this does not match:
> ==========================================================================
> [williams at bengal cdrom]$ more SHA1SUM
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 502b2556b0f5cb6ddb8e997b6ed4d7276a6113c3  FC-6-Pre-i386-rescuecd.iso
> 455e02527fb793c37f129965b23814c4d0a48965  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> 1c0b0b637e9aac547a77f4d39bce9b2357819415  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
> 31578c804ba73e01a4864f3e135cc197e146dbff  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
> 54b9931d2ec4f6ea88e557e213a788886a13a4c9  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
> 473e0de1d2bcefca1b82fa358232bac7c8b901e7  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
> 38a9e1577008f694d6fbb2f43fae3d1d89de4439  FC-6-Pre-i386-DVD.iso
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
> 
> iD8DBQFFHRAjtEJp0E8qb9IRAhujAJ4osReXPchXGH8qhXFwAlUlour0oACfYLBG
> EqaE2lRMeJST3toi4BXoIC0=
> =M62z
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> ==========================================================================
> 
> What am I doing wrong or is it back to the torrent?

Looks like the following bug has not been addressed and affects DELL
Laptops:

Bugzilla Bug 178143: FC5T2 i386 won't boot on Emachines T5026


Has anyone else experienced this on their laptops?



Thanks,
Ernest

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