[ale] CentOS Live not booting

[Rich Faulkner]

Apologies all...I should have changed the subject line when I posted my
original message as a reply to "Take one CentOS..." 

Please read-on if you care to consider the issue I've had on booting
from a live disk for CentOS 5......thx.....


On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 23:40 -0400, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> Say, any ideas why I cannot get CentOS 32 or 64-bit live disk to boot?
> Both keep throwing an error about reserved memory and go nowhere?  I can
> boot on my laptop (now running Fedora 12) but still get some errors.  I
> already tried pulling copies from two different servers but still get
> the same error.
> 
> Thoughts?  I'd REALLY like to get CentOS 5 running and drive 9.10 and
> whatever else I want from there as VM's.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 23:17 -0400, wolf at wolfhalton.info wrote:
> > Take one CentOS and call me in the morning.
> > Fedora is __Supposed_to_be__ a bleeding-edge experimental distro.  
> > I gave it up for CentOS, even though CentOS has upgrades farther apart
> > \\ I mean _Because_ CentOS has upgrades farther apart.
> > I know people running OpenSolaris because it has historically had long
> > end-of-life, like 10 years.  
> > 
> > In the other hand, I generally test alpha flights of Ubuntu (in VMs,
> > these days) for entertainment.
> > 
> > Dr Wolf
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> > Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Known vulnerabilities in whois? (called by
> > fail2ban)
> > Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:19:50 -0400
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com>
> > wrote: 
> >         Something odd today. 
> >         
> >         Fedora Core 10 system dog slow.    Yes, I should upgrade.   Is
> >         there a drug you can legally take to help you forget the prior
> >         pain of Fedora upgrades? 
> >         
> > 
> > Alcohol (to steel the nerves) followed by system reinstall followed by
> > lots more alcohol (to fight back the tears) and few Zanax (um, why not
> > at this point?) for good measure........