[lug] CD install failures

[Michael Deck]

I had similar problem too with recent KRUD, which I reported in this space. 
Sean suggested I might have old hardware and when I replaced the HW I got a 
little farther, to the point where it would boot into the install program 
but then it would crap out later when it couldn't find a package. I ended 
up copying both CD's as ISO images from a CDROM drive on my laptop, across 
my home network, onto the target and then doing the HD install.

This technique is going to be a real pain for the monthly subscription 
update and I'd really like to understand the problem a little better.

Also, I noted that whenever I do the HD install on KRUD it is always in 
text mode, not in GUI mode but I never got that resolved.

Finally, I wonder if anyone can post LILO for how to start the install 
program without having to boot from floppy or CD. Once I've got all this 
stuff copied onto HDD, I'd like to say boot "install" and get the install 
started.

Thanks,
   Mike

At 11:21 AM 10/31/2001 -0800, qqq1one @yahoo.com wrote:
>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
>
>I end up having to cycle power and make several more
>attempts before I finally get an install that
>succeeds.  I should mention that I am using an IDE
>CDROM manufactured around 1999 and that it seems to
>handle other 700MB CDs just fine.
>
>I saw an article at
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22533.html
>where someone else explained they have had a similar
>problem:
>
>"First off, I couldn't get the installation CD to run.
>I re-booted about eight times, but it just spun up and
>died, and went to the next boot device. On the Red Hat
>support site I found an article explaining that when a
>CD-ROM is connected to an IDE controller (just like
>mine), the program has 'problems'."
>
>I wasn't able to find the RH support article
>mentioned.  Does anyone have insight as to what the
>problem might be?  It's not a showstopper since it
>eventually works, but it is annoying and time
>consuming every time I do an install.
>
>
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.