Description of problem: Dual Athlon MP 2800+ on Tyan Tiger S2466 m/b fails to install Fedora Core 1.0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time! Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD 2. Hit Enter at prompt 3. Actual results: Eventually console message 'Installer exited abnormally' appears Expected results: Fedora Core installation Additional info: Sometimes the following console messages appear before the X windows system starts: . . . running install... running /sbin/loader error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic (sic!) gzlib: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated error -2147483630 reading header: cpio: read failed - Success (what?) If I try installing over the network from an NFS image, the kernel pa nics when the driver disk has been read.
The looks like bad boot media to me. Please verify your installation media and if that doesn't work, check your hardware with memtest86. This is sort of "can't happen" failures.
Jeremy I forgot to include the fact that I had already checked the media and run the memtest86 for one complete pass without error (takes forever with 2GB!). Tech support at Tyan have come up with a query about the memory we are using. They say it isn't in their supported list, so we are about to swap it out for a supported type. But that doesn't say much for memtest86 does it? Chris