[Novalug] Can't load Centos 5 on laptop - Resolved!

[Paul]

On Mon, April 23, 2007 9:02 pm, gregory pryzby wrote:
> I know what you mean!
>
> Hope that works....
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:16:40PM -0400, Paul wrote:
>> On Mon, April 23, 2007 8:53 am, gregory pryzby wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:12:54AM -0400, Paul wrote:
>> >> I tried the slowest burn and nothing still, but the same Centos 5
DVD loads fine on another laptop I have, but not this one.  The
Centos
>> 4.4
>> >> DVD
>> >> loaded fine and that is what I am on.  This lap top is not that old.
It's
>> >> a 2.4Ghz Pent 4 with 1 gig ram from 2003, which is faster than allot
sold
>> >> now.  Very strange, I just don't understand it.  Just for kicks, I
burned
>> >> a CD and tried to boot up on 1 of 6 Cento 5 on CD, and still, same
thing.
>> >>
>> >> 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???
>> >
>> > So the DVD and CD work on a different machine/laptop? The error makes
it appear to be a bad burn. I assume you did an MD5SUM of the iso
before burning and it was ok.
>> >
>> > You could try a pxe boot and install.
>> >
>> > (Googled the error and clicked)
>> > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/61074-could-not-load-kernel-image-linux.html
Here's the solution!!!!
>> > Instead of hitting enter just enter:
>> >
>> >    vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img
>> >
>> > Looks like this is a 'common issue'.
>>
>> aahhhh, silly me, sometimes I google so much, I miss the obvious.  And the
>> one person it didn't work with prob didn't include the whole path. 
Here is a bug issued on it:
>>
>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1861
>>
>> type at the boot line the following
>>
>> /isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img
>>
>> I'm gonna try it now.  Thanks.

And it works!  Just remember the full path!

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1861

Also, Centos 5 Rocks!  I just works!  :)