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Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, jn07texas@yahoo.de
Subject: Re: 7.2 CD won't boot
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:41 AM, John Nielsen.<info@us.army.org> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > My 7.2 Release Disc 1 won't boot.  I get the following and nothing more:
> >
> > CD Loader 1.2
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> > Relocating the loader and the BTX
> >
> > I'm running on a Intel SE7501BR2, single Xeon, 2GB.  I have burned a
> > second CD and swapped the CD drive, cable and RAM, all to no avail.  I
> > have a RR1520 RAID controller, but removed that as well.  On-board SCSI
> > controller and serial ports have been disabled, too.  Nothing seems to
> > make a difference.
> >
> > What on earth could be going on?
>
> Can you verify if another machine boots the CD?  Could be a bad download.
>
> Could be a hardware incompatibility.
>
> Also, could you try disabling ACPI at boot?
I found the amd64 dvd download to be corrupt recently. So do check the 
download -- did you verify your download?

David