crc error -- System halted

Forum: HD Install
Topic: crc error -- System halted
started by: Jim_Ivy

Posted by Jim_Ivy on Jan. 05 2005,23:30

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?

Jim

Posted by skaos on Jan. 06 2005,15:29

If 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.

Posted by AwPhuch on Jan. 06 2005,16:50

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
AwPhuch

Posted by Jim_Ivy on Jan. 06 2005,18:34

That 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!

Posted by Rui on Jan. 13 2005,15:06

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.

Thks

Posted by mikki on Jan. 25 2005,12:35

I had this error showing up with 0.9.2 when running from CD on:
Pentium 233
64M RAM
...

Any ideas?

Posted by mikki on Jan. 26 2005,13:13

Quote (Guest @ Jan. 25 2005,07:35)

I had this error showing up with 0.9.2 when running from CD on:
Pentium 233
64M RAM
...

Any ideas?

And it pops up on my p4 with 512M RAM as well

Maybe the image is corrupted?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 27 2005,09:51

Try downloading the image file using FTP instead of HTTP

Also, download the MD5 file and use the md5sum program to check and make sure that you got an uncorrupted download.

Finally, burn the *.iso to a name brand CD-R media using lowest possible recording speed.

Good Luck.

Posted by paultje3181 on Feb. 25 2005,19:51

My solution: boot via another knoppix cd... fdisk /dev/hda, delete the corrupt partition (create several new if you like, create Ext2 or something)
reboot with DSL disk and the problem should be fixed. DSL can't automatically recognise partitions correct I guess. So a CRC error occurs...