I did some investigating into ISOLINUX, and I tried creating a new cd using the isolinux-debug.bin and everything worked just fine. So I am guessing that either one of two things happened: 1) The debug CD booted with some special options that allowed it to start up correctly 2) I used version 2.02 of SYSLINUX and I think the Gentoo CD uses version 2.00. Possibly just having the new version fixed the problem.
Either way I seem to have the Gentoo CD booted so now onto installing. Just thought I would respond to myself so that if anybody else has this problem they can try what I did. On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 20:24, Eric Anderson wrote: > I just decided to try Gentoo Linux on my laptop. It is a Dell Inspiron > 3800. When I stick the CD in and boot I get the following: > > ISOLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25 isolinux: Disk error BB, AX = 4290, drive 82 > > Boot failed: press a key to retry > > If I press any keys it does nothing. Anybody have any suggestions on > where I could start so that I can get Gentoo on my system? -- Eric Anderson There are 10 types of people in the word Those who can read binary, and those who can't -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
