System Halted

[halo1942]

Hi,

Once in a blue moon I get this messege while booting.

Loading Linux.............
Uncompressing Linux....

crc error

--system halted

Other than that my system works great. I power off the system and power back up and all is good. Just curious if anyone's ran into this? My distro is Slack 8.0

Thanks

[demian]

The fact that this appears on an irregular basis make me believe it's a hardware problem. A google/linux search on 'crc error' seems to indicate that it has to do with filesystem integretiy. So maybe you should run a badblock scan on your harddrive.

If you use initial ram disk and it happens when data is read into the ram disk you might have a bad memory module.

[DMR]

You might want to reseat you RAM sticks, and make sure the pins aren't too tarnished. If they are, you can clean them with a pencil eraser followed by a little alcohol.
While you're at it, check the rest of your cabling/connections.

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One of my machines started doing something similar about a year ago. It took a BIOS reset to fix the problem, and it's been running fine since.
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[ 14 April 2002: Message edited by: DMR ]

[slapNUT]

Most of the times I've seen that is booting off a floppy, which makes me believe its a sector on the hard drive thats going bad. Or it could be noise in the machine getting into the ribbon cable to the hard drive.

To eliminate the bad hard drive sector use a different copy of the /boot/vmlinux. Here's how you could do that:
cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.bak
cp /boot/vmlinuz.bak /boot/vmlinuz
Then run lilo. Note: you are booting the same kernel it just been relocated to a different spot on the hard drive.

If you suspect noise then try relocating the ribbon cable going to the hard drive so it doesn't get too close to noisy devices, modems, sound cards, memory boards and especially cooling fans.