My machine currently has Windows XP and Red Hat 7.2 on it and dual boots with LILO. I tried to install Red Hat 8.0 the other day using a boot disk I created with rawrite and when I choose to enter graphical mode for the install it says something like

Loading vmlinuz ........
Loading initrd.img......

And it is on this loading initrd.img that it comes back saying the boot failed and to try another disk. I've using other disks and I keep getting the same messages.

Any ideas as to how I can get this installed or upgrade from 7.2 easily?

Thanks,
Matt

why do you need to create a boot disk? be really sure you can't just boot straight from teh cdrom first.

wow, it took you 53 weeks to make your first post... scary!

Y all this complications ? try to upgrade by booting from the cd. Install grub on the mbr, everything will work fine. also keep a windows startup disk handy..in case grub gives a prob, boot in with that and issue

fdisk /mbr

if ur c: drive in ntfs then there might be problems. i had problems when my c drive was ntfs.

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Gotta be a record for lurking!

Oh, I doubt it is that odd.
I read usenet, websites and bulletin boards prior to installing and for a good year after without ever posting. I didn't register either though.
Isn't that what RTFM means?

Part of the reason I participate now is so newbie lurkers can have a good lurk.