I've download the 4 CD ISO images from 3 different mirrors, tried burning the ISO's on different computers, and I still get the same errors. When I go to boot up with the CD1, I eventually get a Call Trace and then a kernel panic: not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt. It points to the CDROM or the CD itself. I can boot up with Knoppix and Mepis fine. The other odd thing is that these same CD's will boot up fine in VM Ware. The last odd thing is that I've got a system running CentOS. For grins and giggles, I booted up with the CD's on it and I got the same error. I do get the very first boot: screen where I hit <enter> after that, it bombs out after it detects and loads some other items. It never gets to the Check Media screen I can't tell if I'm dealing with a hardware problem or if it's a problem with the ISO's. Nothing makes sense! Any help is appreciated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050913/0676150e/attachment.html>
Can you use bittorrent to download the files? It provides a hash-check of the file as part of the transfer so you can be more certain that the download is correct. The other question is that your burner might be doing something weird. It is certainly very strange that the disks work fine in VMWare, but the rest of the clues point to a bad disk. Regards, Greg
I actually tried the torrent files very first...faster download! I finally figured it out. I finally tried a new CD drive. It's working. Apparently, the old drive and drive I tried were both bad. It still doesn't make sense that it wouldn't work in the other system. I guess that will be another day, though! Thanks for all that responded. --Todd -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Greg Knaddison Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:10 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Re: Install Trouble Can you use bittorrent to download the files? It provides a hash-check of the file as part of the transfer so you can be more certain that the download is correct. The other question is that your burner might be doing something weird. It is certainly very strange that the disks work fine in VMWare, but the rest of the clues point to a bad disk. Regards, Greg _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3022 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050913/f2495d42/attachment.bin>