I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it can't even read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper laptop, and that one loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I try in the Pro-star laptop. What would cause that? I've never seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD x86 32bit DVD. Thanks.
On Sat, April 21, 2007 4:09 pm, Paul wrote:> I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it can't even > read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper laptop, and that one > loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I try in the Pro-star laptop. What > would cause that? I've never seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD x86 > 32bit DVD. Thanks.This is what it says. I get the usual first screen with F1-Main, etc, and when I hit enter to "boot:", it reads back this error: "Could not find kernel image: linux" How can this be??? It can read the Centos 4.4 image, but not the 5???
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:09:48 -0400 (EDT) "Paul" <unix at bikesn4x4s.com> wrote:> I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it > can't even read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper > laptop, and that one loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I > try in the Pro-star laptop. What would cause that? I've never > seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD x86 32bit DVD. Thanks.You haven't mentioned what kind of hardware, CPU & video card... but it could be that your laptop is a Via chipset or a 586... which are not currently supported by CentOS5. You also have not mentioned at what point it crashes. Can it start with linux text? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work
On Sat, April 21, 2007 4:09 pm, Paul wrote:> I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it can't even > read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper laptop, and that one > loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I try in the Pro-star laptop. What > would cause that? I've never seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD x86 > 32bit DVD. Thanks. >I ran into this problem extensively with FC6 which RHEL5/CentOS5 is equivalent to for the most part. When you get to the "boot" prompt type some random characters and hit enter. For example type "kjsdflkjsalkfjsalkdjf" and press enter. It will give you an error. Then type "linux" and press enter or just press enter. It should work just fine now. I don't know what causes it but I read in on fedoraforums.org some time ago and no one had an answer. The guy who found the solution actually typed in some nice words and pressed enter because he was pissed. Then hit enter again and it worked. Let me know if this worked becuase I am sure others will run into the same problem if it is what I think it is. -- Matt Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz at gflug.net