Bug 1621

Summary:	Install fails after crc error
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Keith Mantell <keith>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Bart Verwilst <bart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	vapier
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	cpuburn-1.4.tar.bz2

Description Keith Mantell 2002-04-09 14:28:30 UTC

Installing 1.1a from gentoo-i686-1.1a.iso
IBM Thinkpad 770Z, Pentium II 256M 14G (currently has Mandrake 8.2 installed)
The CDRW works on 2 other machines

Error messages:

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
crc errorFreeing initrd memory: 7142k freed

....

Warning: Unable to open an initial console

.....

kernel panic

Note on 1.1 r1 the initial error was different:
RAMDISK (etc)
invalid compressed format(err=1)Freeing initrd memeory 7121k freed

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-09 19:44:52 UTC

Don't know.  It's possible you have a bad CD burn (but probably not), or that
our kernel doesn't like your ThinkPad 770Z for some reason.

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-11 13:14:13 UTC

Maybe you need to tweak some BIOS settings, like the "memory hole" setting? 
Still not quite sure what's going on.

Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-12 23:44:10 UTC

Hmmm.... someone with a ThinkPad 600 (search to see it) is having a similar
weird kernel boot problem.  Odd.

Comment 4 George Shapovalov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-08 21:59:01 UTC

Hi Keith

Its being a while but still.
I was helping one person on #gentoo with similar problem. In the end this
appeared to be caused by faulty memory. Could you please run memtest86 on this
laptop to check that?
http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/

Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-20 12:42:18 UTC

There's a problem, from what I hear, in booting from CD-RW's

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-04 10:16:12 UTC

i also had this problem on older pc's ... i just rebooted and tried again and 
it worked

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-04 10:43:28 UTC

Created attachment 2815 [details]
cpuburn-1.4.tar.bz2

rux0r portage # tar -jxvf cpuburn-1.4.tar.bz2
rux0r portage # ls -R app-benchmarks
app-benchmarks:
cpuburn

app-benchmarks/cpuburn:
cpuburn-1.4.ebuild  files

app-benchmarks/cpuburn/files:
digest-cpuburn-1.4

Comment 8 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-04 19:25:11 UTC

hmm i guess i posted that cpuburn ebuild to the wrong bug :)

anyways, closing bug due to the fact that the specified iso is old, and the bug 
reporter has kinda disappeared ...