iso 160 fails to boot after install

[ElllisD]

I've been trying to install the new 160 iso on a new dell notebook. the only thing I see thats different than when Ive installed lunar on other machines is that this notebook uses /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/hda0 when i look in cfdisk.

Before i began, i deleted the partition(s) dell had in there holding xp, system recovery, & another tiny one i dunno what was doing there. I then made primary partitions, placing swap @ 1G at the end of the drive. I haven't tried changing up primary to logical partitions & installing again yet. When I format ive been using -O dir_index after the -j in mke2fs & then telling the installer not to format

When I get to the kernel part, I always compile the first one then install the remaining prefab'd kernels.
I've done the install over & over using both grub & lilo, using many or 1 (not counting swap partition) partition on the device, calling the / partition type 83 or fd. When I used fd as the type, i used whatever kind of raid choice is highlighted by default when i enter that menu, forgive me i dont recall what that is atm. There was a 0 at the end of whatever its called.

When the first (or ones after) boot happens (from the hard drive rather than the cdrom), I see 1 kernel as a choice, no mm, grs afterward, just the numbers of the kernel. I choose it & get:

Uncompressing Linux.........

ran out of input data

-- System halted



the system is a
Dell Inspiron E1505
Centrino 1/1 1G 90Gscsi
wifi, bt, 10/100

...hopefully this provides sufficient information - please let me know what relevant info i may have omitted. Thank you.

[sofar]

your posting is very confusing and it's impossible to make sense out of this. You are also making the situation uncontrollable by trying to do all sorts of complicated things. Here are some hints:

1) don't install on raid - try to install on a normal partition first
(one single partition, no swap, ext3 filesystem only)
2) install only _one_ kernel, preferably the first listed precompiled one
3) do this once for grub, once for lilo

if this doesn't work, it will at least be simpler to understand what might have gone wrong, and we might be able to help.