The URL at which to get the 3rd-party driver for it that was nice. The only aspect of the (to be Solaris) system that was flagged by theĬheck_install CD was the Ethernet interface, and check_install supplied Induced me to try CentOS' Live CD before a full installation. Its parts weren't in Sun's HCL (Hardware Compatibility List)) is what That pleasant experience (buying a system I knew would work even if
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Install for over a decade now), but when I desired to install Solarisġ0 on "some" system, I downloaded/burned a check_install bootable ISOįrom Sun and took that with me to stores when I was seeking a modern 'Sfunny, I've never really used Live CDs before (simply doing a full This is a shame, because I would think many people would want to testĭrive a Live CD before committing to a full install, and a failure withĪ Live CD could/would sour someone on the distro. Given others' experiences with a full install ofĬentOS 5.2, the problems with booting a Live CD strongly suggest there'sĪ kernel (or module thereof) difference between "live" and a full install. display" section, but a Google search reveals theĬause of the above two messages was supposedly fixed in February 2008 per:Īnd could be ignored. This desktop subsequently failed as my others do as described below in "PCI: BIOS BUG: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved" The following two messages appeared on yet another desktop upon which I "mount: special device /dev/root does not existīug in initramfs /init detected.
"pnp: PnPACPI: METHOD_NAME_CRS failure for PNP0c01"Ĭreate symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the The following messages appear at several stages during booting the LiveĬD on several desktops they do not appear booting on several laptops:
Many Ubuntu distros, and even Fedora 10 Live CDs. Google search finds same problem occuring since (at least) Fedora Core 7, Updated: 1, new symptom same problem on another desktopĬentOS 5.2 Live CD fails booting on modern desktops but boots/loads/runs