On 10/1/07, Ted Miller tedjeanmiller@sbcglobal.net wrote:

I am fairly sure that I had gotten this to work before, and I know that the Centos4-live disk worked OK, but now (maybe since I upgraded BIOS)

They are chances you guessed the origin of the problem :-)

You can try if other live-cd like fedora 7 works and meet your need or try downgrade your bios.

Did you add or switched any drive in your PC ?

Also you could try to put a drive in IDE0 Master. I saw so much strange things !

I get this sequence after booting the live cd:

Creating /var in RAM ... Done Found Centos-live.sqfs but couldn't mount it: Linking /usr to /centos-live/usr /linuxrc: 1208: [: not found

Freeing unused kernel memory: 296K freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 684K Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found Try passing init= option to kernel

So far I:

1. checked md5 of downloaded .iso
2. burned another copy of CD w/ verify after burn using KD3
3. tried CD in a VMWare machine, and it boots up fine
4. tried failsafe boot option

I am guessing that the problem goes back to the "Found centos-live.spfs but couldn't mount it" line, as this mounts OK on the VMWare machine.

In case the hardware layout is confusing it, and I really do need to pass an init argument to it, my layout is:

IDE 0 Master: None Slave: CD drive IDE 1 Master: CD drive Slave: hdd (windows 2000 boot) IDE 2 (SATA): sda IDE 3 (SATA): sdb IDE 4 (SATA): sdc

MB is Gigabyte K8N Ultra 9 nVidia NForce 4 chipset F9c BIOS version AMD64 processor 1gb RAM

Glad to supply other info if you tell me what you need and where to find it.

Ted Miller Indiana _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos