I apologize since this is probably OT, but I'm hoping someone on the list can help. I'm trying to boot a new computer with a live CD. I've tried Mandriva 2010 and 2011, Kubuntu, Puppy, Fedora 16. All of them fail to boot and drop to CLI. The error messages are different in each case. I'm including the Fedora error message as an example.
============== Fedora error message ============== dracut Warning: No root device "live:/dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live- KDE.iso" found Dropping to debug shell sh: can't access tty; job control turned off dracut:/# =========================================== Obviously, the problem is with the computer since several live CDs fail, but I have no idea what I should be looking for. I tried booting from an ULTILEX 5 CD and was able to run various utilities, such as Memtest, hardware detection, stress test, etc. But Puppy and SLAX on that CD would also not boot. Just to provide more info which may or may not be relevant, the computer is i7-2600, an ASUS motherboard, 8 Gb memory, 1 Tb disk (not yet formatted) and a Gigabyte GTX5600 video card. The DVD I'm trying to boot from is SATA. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.13.3 (KDE 4.4.3) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.1
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