[sclug] RedHat 9 issues

[Leon Ward]

 	Hello World.
 
 Ok this may sound like a silly problem but it has me stumped.
 Google has been bugg3r all help.
 
 I am attempting to upgrade my "Crash n Burn" box to RedHat 9, 
 downloaded the ISO's and burned them myself (MD5's were fine).
 All CD's burned ok, however I cant boot of the install disk, 
 GRUB comes up with all the boot options fine but when I 
 select install the kernel does not start to boot.
 
 
 eg
 
 boot: [enter]
 
 Loading vmlinuz......
 Loading initrd.img.....
 [clear screen]
 
 -hang-
 
 I have tried the noprobe, text options etc but their kernel 
 does not want to play.
 
 I mounted the install disk in another box and created a 
 floppy boot image...
 
 #cd /mnt/cdrom/images
 #dd if=./bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=16k
 
 This process seams to work, but after rebooting I get the following
 
 SYSLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25 Boot failed.
 
 
 
 So any suggestions would be a great help,
 I have tried the CD's in another old crap box (a HP Vectra 
 VLi8 P2 400, 128Mb all IDE) and the boot fine. Ran the "Check 
 media" option and everything passed.
 BTW I have tried all boot options like "linux noprobe" that I know of.
 
 Hardware spec: 
 
 HP Kayak XU (D6335N)
 Single p2 Xeon
 Adaptec AIC-7880 with one HDD attached
 IDE CDROM on Pri Master
 128Mb RAM
 
 BTW RH8, 7.3 Debian, Gentoo, winnt all boot fine from my CDROM.
 
 Any ideas? 
 
 Leon
 
 
 

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