[plug] Linux halting at bootup

[Leon Brooks]

"Roob, Andrew" wrote:
> I have long wanted to try my hand at Linux and have now finally got around
> to setting up a box .. I have a P100 with 16Mg and a 1.6Mg HDD (what can I
> say .. its all spare parts ;) .. I got a distro copy of Redhat 6.0 and
> installed it .. No probs so far .. After finishing the install it then
> reboots and starts LILO .. Here is the problem .. When it is uncompressing
> it comes up and says "CRC Error - System halted" .. I have tried 3 different
> Hdd and swapped out the memory .. The box boots up fine from floppy but will
> not boot from the hdd .. Hopefully someone will be able to shed some light
> on this little problem ..

To _really_ check your hardware integrity, boot from your emergency
floppy, then configure and make a kernel. If it survives that without a
Sig11 or similar, your core machine is almost certainly OK.

If it passes, try booting from floppy and then re-running LILO from the
live system (as root).

If that gives no errors but still fails to boot, try using the "linear"
keyword in /etc/lilo.conf and re-running LILO.

If that still fails, note that all IO up to the point where the kernel
messages (about bogomips, devices etc) appear is done through the BIOS.
Check for dodgy BIOS settings and things like IDE drives set to slave
but without a master on the same buss (you might like to redo the entire
install if this is the problem as random chunks might be missing from
/anything/).