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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,23:30 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Jan. 06 2005,15:29 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Jan. 06 2005,16:50 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Jan. 06 2005,18:34 QUOTE
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!    :)
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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,15:06 QUOTE
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
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