DVD Install of F8T1 failed on Dell Inspiron 860

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 08/21/2007 09:31 AM, Pat Kane wrote:
>  > Those are both syslinux (well, isolinux in this case).
>  > Can you try adding "earlyprintk=vga" to the kernel command line?
> 
> That did not produce any more output, the last message  I see is
> still "Ready."  BTW, I used yesterday's rawhide boot.iso for the test.
> 
> I just took a quick look at the early Linux boot code in
>     ./arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
> and I think that the function "decompress_kernel()" should be called very early
> on, and that  the line:
>     putstr("Uncompressing Linux... ");
> does not appear to be working.
> 
> I wonder why I do not see the message "Uncompressing Linux... " ?

Because it fails before that.

Did we confirm that adding:

    edd=skipmbr

to the kernel command line doesn't help?