Error "Can't load kernel" on install boot-up

[Rene Brehmer]

Hi Kent

At 12:25 09/12/2005, Kent Stewart wrote:
[snip]
> > When booting from the CD, the bootloader loads up, then has that
> > twirling line character, and then it stops with "can't load kernel",
> > and a prompt that simply says "OK".
> > I've tried a few times both with the CD1 image and the Install image,
> > but both dies at the same place.
> > There's a whole bunch of .ko files in the /kernel folder, so I assume
> > the kernel is actually there. It may be a hardware issue, only I
> > dunno what as I found 99% of all my hardware on the currently
> > supported list.
> >
> > Machine is Asus A7N8X mobo rev. 2.0, latest BIOS, Athlon XP 2600+, 1
> > GB dual-channel DDR400 HyperX RAM, 160 GB WD Caviar SE 8 MB ATA/100
> > hdd, 40 GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP ATA/100 hdd, Iwill/Advansys
> > Ultra-SCSI-2 controller + Plextor UltraPlex 40tsi & Plextor
> > PlexWriter 12/10/32tsi CD drives, Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro 256 MB
> > AGPx8 graphics on DVI to Viewsonic VX715, SoundBlaster Audigy2 sound,
> > 550 W Antec TruePower PSU.
[snip]

>I always use Nero 6 on XP to burn my CDs. They always burn at 42x. They
>always work. So, Nero isn't a problem.
>
>What were you trying to install? It sounds like you downloaded something
>other than an I-386 iso and it wouldn't run in that mode.

They're supposed to be i386 iso's:

6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso

I tried both the bootonly and the disc1 images to boot from, both 
fail at the same spot.
I haven't got a clue how to check the MD5 of them, so I dunno if 
they're corrupted... but the filesize matches, so I assumed they were ok.

I don't have any problem booting from other CDs btw (only have 
Windows CDs to try with though) ... just these ones...


Rene

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