DSL works fine from CD but after installing to the hard drive, it gives this message:
LILO 22.5.7.2 Loading Linux . . . . . . BIOS data check successful You passed and undefined mode number. Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, etc. etc. Uncompressing Linux . . . crc error -- System halted
Then only a hard boot will do anything.
System is an old Dell Latitude XPi CD 16M of ram 2 GB hard drive Pentium MMX 166 Processor.
Runs fine (without X) from the CD, and will every once in a while, boot from the HD without the crc error.
Partition hda1 is a 128M swap partition. Partition hda2 is the root partion using the remainder of the drive.
The drive does not show errors when I fsck. I have tried installing from two CDs, both of which work fine when I boot from floppy to CD. (System does not support boot to CD).
I have been able to boot from Lilo installed on the disk, and from Grub on a floppy. But eventually the crc error returns.
Any ideas about what to do?
JimIf you don't mind wiping the disk, you could run "badblocks -svw /dev/hda" (without quotes, not quite sure about the options) from a CD boot. This will will check your disk in more depth than fsck.
Quote (skaos @ Jan. 06 2005,10:29)
If you don't mind wiping the disk, you could run badblocks -svw /dev/hda (not quite sure about the options) from a CD boot. This will will check your disk in more depth than fsck.
Wow! great post man..very good for checking out hardware!
Brian AwPhuchThat seems to have done the trick. Ran it with exactly the options you specified, then cfdisk to recreate the swap and data partion, dsl-hdinstall, mkliloboot. Now it seems to be booting
Thanks for the help! I have a 2gb HD with Linux Slackware 8.0. I Tried to boot on my athlon machine and its ok. But when i tried to boot in my 486 machine, i get the same problem "crc error system halted". I don't know how to solve this problem too.
