SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 7.3
When you try to boot from the floppy disk or CD1 included in SuSE Linux, you obtain the error message:
Loading initdisk.gz....Boot failed
Standard boot images are created in "compact
" format to enable
a smooth and quick boot process. Modern PCs can usually work with this format
without difficulties.
However, old or certain hardware components (e.g. some notebooks) cannot work with this format because it involves a very intense access to the boot medium (floppy/CD-ROM).
Use instead a boot image created without "compact
", such as the
file "boot
" in the directory "/suse/images
" on the
first CD.
You can make a boot floppy from this file by means of rawrite
under DOS (CD 1, directory
/dosutils/rawrite
) or with dd
under Unix/Linux.