[DC LoCo] Kernel Panic!

[Frank J. Gómez]

I'm feeling more and more this is a motherboard issue.  On one startup I got
the following:

Bad BIOS checksum.  Starting BIOS recovery...
Checking for floppy...
Floppy not found
Checking for CD-ROM...
CD-ROM not found

On the next startup, the message did not appear.

Following Dan's advice to try booting from another medium, I created a
bootable USB drive using System > Administration > Startup Disk Creator and
the 9.04 iso I had.  It dead-ends here:

syslinux 4.01 debian-20100714 EDD <Copyright info...>
Unknown keyword in configuration file: gfxboot
vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:
vesmenu.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:

It'll let me type something in and submit it, e.g.:

boot: arg!
Could not find kernel image: arg!

... but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to enter here.

I'm also wondering: if I manage to get this thing to boot off the USB drive,
then what?  The machine is obviously not stable.  What will I have
accomplished by getting it to boot?  I'm pretty sure editing the Grub conf
files on the original hard drive isn't going to help me get this machine
operational again.  Just thinking out loud here...

Thanks again for your continued help,
-Frank

2011/2/1 Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com>

> 2011/2/1 Frank J. Gómez <frank at crop-circle.net>:
> > Even going all the way back to a 9.04 AMD64 Live CD (the oldest one I
> have
> > laying around), I can't get to any kind of command prompt where I could
> > issue such a command.  Am I missing something?  I can't boot off the hard
> > drive, I can't boot off any of my CDs (Ubuntu or otherwise), and pressing
> > the Shift key to get into Grub doesn't work.
> > Thanks again,
> > -Frank
>
> There are older netboot and live images available; try
> old-releases.ubuntu.com. If you have another method of booting (e.g.,
> netboot/PXE, external CD/DVD, USB thumb drive), try those.
>
> -Dan
>
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