Guest papaz Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 I decided to upgrade from MDK 8.1 to 10.1 so I ordered the 10.1 Powerpack CDs. The CD starts the boot process but always fails in the loading into memory step and I get the "Fatal error finishing initialization" message. I looked at the message log and see that there are messages about bad sectors and I/O errors on the CDROM drive. This happens right after it loads the CDROM driver. I don't understand why it needs to load a driver when it is already reading from the CDROM, but it does and promptly fails. I tried the CD in a different computer and it got through that step just fine. I have tried it several times and always get the same result. Is there something I can do to get these CDs to work in my PC? It is a 200 mhz Pentium II with 256mb RAM. I tried running a Knoppix livecd in it and that worked fine. It even accessed my USB port and my digital camera with drivers it had on the CD. The cdrom also works fine when I am using MDK 8.1. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Try installing in expert mode (F1). Then try some of the options linux noapic noacpi etcetc. Or, press ct-alt-F2 and type modprobe <the offending module>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest papaz Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 Is there any documentation of the options available? I've tried noauto, noapci, noacpi, nodma and text without any change in results. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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