First off, the cd fails to boot, scrolling "Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg.", then says "Could not find kernel image: linux", then gives a "boot:" prompt. I can boot off the floppy, though, and installation runs fine. I've tried both automatic and manual partitioning on a completely empty hard drive with no partitions. All I have in this computer is a single 16GB hard drive, but I've got the exact same results on 3 separate computers, 2 empty and 1 dual booting Win2k. So I boot off the floppy and start the installation. Everything is detected fine and default packages are installed. But in CTRL+ALT+F1 I get "WARNING: Unknown EDD version 0x200 supported" twice. After everything is installed, during the post install configuration I get "An error occured while installing the bootloader.....Fatal: open /dev/hda: No such file or directory." In CTRL+ALT+F1 I get "useradd: cannot create directory /home/Luke" and "chfn: user 'Luke' does not exist." In CTRL+ALT+F5, it says "Cannot find root partition in /etc/fstab." I click OK. Then it fails to create a boot disk, I'm assuming because it can't find the files with which to make it. So I go on and the installer quits and restarts the computer. Needless to say, without the bootloader or a boot floppy I get the old "Missing operating system" message. Booting with the Partition Magic rescue disks, I can see the /boot, /, and swap partitions and that there is data on them. Does anyone know what is going on? Sorry about the huge post, but I'm really a . Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sounds to me you might have a bad disk to install with. Have you tried any others? Where did you obtain the disk? If it did the same thing on three different computers, it is definitely not your computers, unless you have just really bad luck on all three.

Got the isos off of redhat.com and mirrors and burned them. It seems it would be the cds, seeing as it does the same thing on different computers. I don't understand how they could be bad, though, coming straight from the source. I mean they install everything fine, but it seems to not recognize the partitions after installing all the packages. And they don't boot correctly. Very odd. I guess I'm just screwed until I can get back to high speed access.

once back to high speed, try www.linuxiso.org , they usually never do me wrong in getting the iso's downloaded and burned with never having a bad burned disk.

Ok. After checking the md5 sums, which I should have done before I burned them, I've found out the first iso is corrupted. At least only half my time was wasted .

I read all the replies to this qustion. I have downloaded the cd2 from RH's own ftp site, and other sites. (Funny, each site gives a different file size), all the same, it burns the .iso file without any boot file on the CD.
Thanks

I've had the same problem. Try not booting from the CD. Create and boot from a boot diskette (made with rawrite.exe in dosutils on CD). That worked for me.