[lug] CD install failures

[qqq1one @yahoo.com]

Sorry if this is getting annoying.  At least you have only had to read about it! :)

I take this one back too... (see my other post:
http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2001.11/msg00336.html)

> Well I seem to have a CDROM drive that is going bad.  I replaced my 2 year old IDE CD-R unit
with
> a new IDE CD-RW unit and I have not experienced any of the trouble I mentioned below.  It seems
> that every time I've had a major problem with Linux it has turned out to really be a problem
with
> the hardware.
>
> > I've been experiencing frequent install failures with
> > Red Hat from CD and also with KRUD from CD.  Most
> > recently with 7.2, but I've had the same problems with
> > earlier RH and KRUD distributions as well.  If I go
> > back as far as 6.1 I don't have any problem.
> >
> > Basically with the newer distributions either I see
> > the "Loading vmlinuz...." line and then the screen
> > goes blank and the system freezes, or it gets further,
> > prints out the following errors and then freezes:
> >
> >   RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> >   invalid compressed format (err=1)Freeing initrd
> > memory: 2046k freed
> >   EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> >   cramfs: wrong magic
> >   isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02,
> > iso_blknum=16, block=32
> >   Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02
> > 
<big snip>

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