I can't say if this is your problem, but I've seen reports of this happening on high speed burns. Also, if you downloaded from a mirror rather than BitTorrent, did you confirm the md5 sum before burning?
When I try to boot from 5.1 Live CD on my desktop system, I get the following error messages:
"ERROR: Cannot unite read-only media and initial ramdisk. Shutdown: HDB. Shutdown: HDA. System halted." Then it says:
"Read only CD system sucessfully merged with read-write /ramdisk. LINUXRC: cannot create /var/run/utmp: directory nonexistent filesystem could mount root; tried: reiserfs ext3 ext2 msdos vfat iso9660 fuseblk rnel panic - not syncing; vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (1, 3)"
I haven't got a clue what that means...I hope it makes sense to somebody here.
I've tried several of the cheatcodes without luck. I know the Live CD is good 'cause it works perfectly on a Toshiba notebook.
I'm using a P3 450 with an Intel SE440BX-2 MB & 256MB memory. Burner is an HP CD Writer + 8200. As I said, there isn't a problem booting the CD on the notebook just the desktop.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
I can't say if this is your problem, but I've seen reports of this happening on high speed burns. Also, if you downloaded from a mirror rather than BitTorrent, did you confirm the md5 sum before burning?
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Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
It was a low speed burn and the MD5 sums matched. The CD works just fine on the other computer.

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