Bug 13654
| Summary: | Kernel won't start; possible hardware problem? | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | rainman |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-07-10 19:59:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is indicative of memory problems (normally at the top end of memory) or other bios problems |
I cannot get a kernel to startup on this machine : Motherboard : Elite Computer Systems P5HX-B, firmware Ver 1.5d (PCI BUS) BIOS : Award BIOS, firmware v4.51PG CPU : Intel Pentium 200MHz MMX Memory : 80 MB EDO SIMMS (assorted manufacturers) HD : Western Digital 6.4 GB Caviar Drive Video : S3 Trio64 NIC : 3COM 3CSOHO-100TX When the machine boots up and LILO select the linux kernel, one of the following three things happens : *********************************************** LILO boot: Loading linux............ Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=1) -- System halted {System hangs here} *********************************************** LILO boot: Loading linux {System hangs here} *********************************************** LILO boot: Loading linux... {System automatically reboots} *********************************************** Thanks!