Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD? (fwd)

[Michael Hennebry]

I don't know about virt-install or much about booting,
so I don't know what, if any, relationship this has with bug 785815.
Tried first in users.
'Twas suggested I come here.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 
>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive.
>> It doesn't work.
> 
>> How do I debug this?
> 
> Most recently I used tab and backspaced over quiet.
> Since I didn't have a running system, I had to copy the result by hand:
> [1.429346] ---cut here---
> kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:531!
> invalid opcode 0000 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in:
> 
> Pid 1: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-7.f16.i686 #1 Daktech**DT6000*
> /D865GBF
> EIP: 0060:[<c0811b4e>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 1
> EIP is at do_nmi+0x22/0x280
> EAX: ec498000  EBX: 9ed363a7  ECX: 00000000  EDX: ec499b0c
> ESI: ec499b38  EDI: c0a5c746  EBP: ec499b30  ESP: ec499b0c
> DS: 007b  ES: 007b  FS: 00d8  GS: 00e0  SS: 0068
> Process swapper (pid: 1, t:=0c490000  task=ec49000  task.ti=ec498?00)
> Stack:
> 00000000 00000002 00000001 ffff0005 ec499bc8 9ed3c63a7 ?f8ce356
> c0a5c746 ecbcb8c0 c08117bc 9ed363a7 00000000 ff8ce356  ?0a5c746
> ecbcb8c0 000054b2 c05c00b7 0000007b 000000e0 000054b2  ?05c9745
> call trace

This was followed by catatonia.

> Every line began [1.429346]
> The *s represent little circles.
> The question marks are the result of wrap-around and
> my screen apparently being 79.7 characters wide.
> I expect that they should be the same as the hex digits following them.
> 
> Any ideas?

The only other suggestion I've gotten was a memory check.
My memory is good.
The .iso file has the right checksum.
As copied from either my CD reader or my DVD burner,
the CD is an exact copy of the .iso file.
Booting fails with a dump and catatonia whether
booting from the DVD burner or from the CD reader.
Making the switch requires editing the BIOS.

BTW the burning portion of my DVD burner seems to have
given up the ghost after I burned the memory check CD.
Until I get another burner, I can't make an F16 DVD to boot from.
If I copied the iso file to a partition,
is there a way I could boot from it?

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whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily