Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 35233
Linux doesn't boot on Topline laptop
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:36 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) I have troubles booting Linux after installing Redhat Linux 7.0 on my laptop (a Topline Insignis 8500 Pro). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose Linux in Lilo boot manager. 2. 3. Actual Results: Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux... crc error -system halted or Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=2) --system halted or even Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux... out of memory --system halted or sometimes it's just Loading Linux... Expected Results: Starting Linux. My partition table looks as follows: hda1 2996M Win95 FAT32 hda2 2463M Linux Native hda3 243M Linux Swap hda5 5004M Win95 FAT32 hda6 800M Win95 FAT32 My harddisk has more than 1024 cylinders. hda4 is an extended partition with logical partitions in it (hda5,hda6). My boot manager is installed in the master boot record. I've tried installing the bootmanager in hda2, I've tried the lineair and lba32 options. They all give the same results mentioned above. What might this possibly be? I had the same problem when I installed Redhat Linux 6.2 in the past. Booting Windows Millennium with the Lilo Boot manager works.
crc errors generally imply an error reading the kernel from the disk? Have you checked your disk for any errors with badblocks during the install process?
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I've solved the problem by installing MS-Dos for Windows ME, editing the config.sys file by adding a menu item for Linux. I boot the Linux kernel from my Windows ME partition by using Loadlin. That does work.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.