[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting <-- Solved

[Hong Chyr]

Solved the original problem of reboot looping by installing FC4. 
Observed an interesting thing: Loaded FC4 CD1, booted half way and 
reported a kernel panic since it can't find the boot image. Stumpled 
upon the solution by rebooting and keying in an invalid option at the 
boot prompt (eg. instead of linux text, I accidentally typed linuxtext). 
That seemed to "trick" the kernel into looking at the right boot image. 
Strange. By the way, the machine was using a LiteOn DVD-ROM drive to 
boot, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with this problem?

Hong


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