Topic: SME CD fails to Boot up

[lvandeve]

I have installed SME on another system & have things running well for over a month.  I tried loading (same) SME cd onto a new system and got the following error message at the end of the boot cycle:

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EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: unable to read boot sector
Isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev+09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 09:00

I deleted all partitions on the hard drive & reformatted and get this same error message when booting the cd.  I then downloaded another (clean) version of SME, burned another cd and get this same message.  What do I need to do to get this to load on this Hard Drive?  The drive is 120 gig maxtor.  I set up a dos FAT partition (taking the entire drive).

Thanks for any help
Larry

[MSmith]

Bet your hard drive is either failing or has a corrupt track.  Run Maxtor's Powermax utility and do a full diagnostic scan on it, then "write zeroes" to completely erase the drive.

[lvandeve]

Thanks,  I did try to "zero out" the drive .. the drive looks fine.  I downloaded sme v7.0, burned new disk and it loaded fine.  I have several (3)v6.0 disks (all checksums, checked) and none of these would work to boot & load.

Oh, well ... I guess I'm up & running on 7.0 (beta)

Thanks, for the reply.

Larry

[MSmith]

The drive wasn't by any chance SATA, was  it?  Because that would explain why it didn't work with 6.0.  SATA is not supported.

[lvandeve]

Yes, that drive is an SATA.  That explains a lot!

Thanks for the reply ... I did not know an SATA was not supported.


Larry