On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:26:33 +0200, Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote: > I can boot into the Linux "install menu" using the CD without a problem. > > The message comes after I write > > linux rescue > > I can hear the computer reading from the drive, then I get the message > mentioned above. _Below_. :) > uncompressing Linux > crc error > -- system halted > > and the system freezes. > For insurance reasons, my computer was sent to a workshop for "damage > control". The "only" hardware damaged were my Monitor, agp graphic card, pci > modem and pci TV card. Before I sent the computer to the technician (and > after I got a new monitor), I was actually able to log myself on to Linux > without any difficulty, despite problems with the Graphic Card. The damaged > hardware have all been replaced and I don't run into problems with any of my > hardware when I run Windows XP. Partition Magic does not find any errors på > de Linux Partitions. So the hardware should be fine. Ok, but that doesn't explain why rescue mode fails to uncompress the kernel as found on the first CD. That could be indication of damaged RAM modules. If you boot the first CD and run the "media-check" feature, does the first CD pass the test? --- Strangely enough, the media checked failed on both RH 8 and the brandnew RH9 - both CDs are out of the box - bought and paid for! It doesn't make sense that there should be something wrong with both CDs. I did just recently change my old CDRom with a Liteon DVDROM. Are there issues with DVD Roms? I have also discovered that for some strange reason, I didn't always get the same message (or result) when I tried to run the rescue mode. One of the messages was the following (there were a number of lines I was not able to read b/c of the speed in which the startup messages come on the screen. I imagine though that the last lines are probably the most relevant). Usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 Hub.c. USB hub found Hub.c: 3 ports detected Usb.c: registered new driver hidddev Usb.c: registered new driver hid Hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojteck Pavlik vojtech@xxxxxxx Hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers Mice:PS/2 device common for all mice Md: md driver 0.90 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 Md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. Md: autorun? Md: ? autorun DONE NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0 Crc error <6> Freeing initrd memory: 2648k freed EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock Cramfs: wrong magic FAT: unable to read boot sector Isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02 It is at this point that my computer freezes. Most of this does not make sense to me. Any idea what is going on? Is there something I should be worried about? I was able to bypass all this when I did a cold reboot of the computer, and even succeeded in installing GRUB This is my computer MB - Asus A7N8X deluxe - same as before 256 RAM (PC2100) - same as before RAID is available, but I am not using it I have 6 USB 2,0 ports (four in the back and two in the front) I have firewire I still have my three old harddrives (4,8 GB (With all my data), 5,2 GB (for Linux), and 20 GB (my primary master - for Win XP - all three are 5200 rpms - I'm considering changing making changes here and going for larger drives at 7200 rpms) Sound is on board (NVidia - it was a problem in RH 8 - I hope it works with RH 9) 3COM LAN Controller NVidia LAN controller (Not having broadband at the moment, I don't use these two - don't even know the difference between the them or why I even have two LAN controllers!) Graphic card is new - Albatron GeForce 4 (Ti 4280) - 128 MB The monintor is new (AOC 17" flat screen - LM721A) The TV card is new - WinTV (Hauppauge) Liteon DVD - also new Cheers, Marie-Thérèse -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
