7.2 CD won't boot

[David Southwell]

> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:41 AM, John Nielsen.<info at 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
John 

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