On 10/1/07, Ted Miller <tedjeanmiller at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you