Unable to boot my machine

[Richard Crawford]

Okay, I'll go crawl back into my hole now.

Earlier, I'd tried to create a boot floppy before reading the 
information that said that the FC3 kernel is too big to fit on a single 
floppy.  Stupidly, I'd left that floppy in the floppy drive, and 
forgotten about it before rebooting the computer, but the BIOS still 
boots from the floppy after the CD-ROM drive but before the hard drive.

So I'm guessing it's time for me to get a brain transplant, and then go 
to bed.  Sorry for wasting the bandwidth.

Richard Crawford wrote:
> I ran up2date and installed the newest kernel on my machine, but now I 
> am unable to boot my computer at all.  I set the newest kernel as the 
> default in the bootloader, and rebooted the machine.  I got the 
> following error before it even got to the GRUB screen:
> 
> SYSLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 Boot failed
> 
> On the off chance that this might have been a problem with the new 
> kernel, I booted the computer from the FC3 rescue disk, and switched the 
> default kernel back to the older one, but that of course did not work.
> 
> Any thoughts?  This one's got me stumped.


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