Bug 18404
| Summary: | CRC error after install | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | aia21 <aia21> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | aia21 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-10-17 00:48:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
aia21
2000-10-05 14:06:37 UTC
What exactly do you see on the screen after the graphical LILO screen? I just tried several times to boot and it seems to be doing three things (at random one of them and then need to reboot): 1) --screen output start -- Loading linux..................... Uncompressing Linux... crc error -- System halted --screen output end -- 2) --screen output start -- Loading linux..................... Uncompressing Linux... _ --screen output end -- the _ is the blinking cursor and it hangs like that. 3) --screen output start -- Loading linux..................... Uncompressing Linux... <spontaneous reboot without me touching anything!> It appears that your kernel image may be corrupt. I would recommend reinstalling (save anything you want to keep) and seeing if this helps. I have now reinstalled 4 times (complete reformat every time) and I even tried with/without the linear option but still doesn't work. - Always the same result. - Except if linear option is used the displayed text changes to: Loading linux...................... Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=2) -- System halted [To make sure the hardware is ok I installed Windows 98 and that is working absolutely fine.] Is the kernel version used for the bootnet.img the same as the kernel that is installed on disk? - If not, maybe there is a SCSI driver problem with the AHA2940 on the installed kernel? The boot floppy that is created during installation fails to boot in exactly the same way as straight off the hard drive. On the other hand, when booting with the installation floppy (bootnet.img) and using the boot command: linux rescue The system boots fine and I am dropped into a shell from which I am able to mount the installation partition (after mknod /dev/sda*...) and can cat files from it fine so the data is not corrupted on the disk. Any suggestions? To follow up my previous comments: When booting after the install it still crashes as described above but booting using the install disk and doing linux rescue drops me in a shell. - I can then mount my installed root partition and the system is fine. - Executables run, etc. no problems. - Also, I recompiled the kernel with all my devices compiled in and not being modules and ran lilo but booting still crashes in the same way as with the original installation kernel! Very weird indeed. Oh, and there is a new error message I just saw: Loading Linux................ Uncompressing Linux... ran out of input data -- System halted This is now solved. - The BIOS required 2 8-bit waitstates to be set and now it works fine! - Sorry for the inconvenience caused. - Obviously Linux was/is doing something more hardware pushing than windows so windows worked with a different waitstate but linux didn't... this wait state you speak of how exactly did you implement this? I have the same problem it is really fun. Thanks |