Guest EliteNeophyte Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 (edited) locigal block 337xxx I get this error from the kernel msg screen after it attempts to load the install program into memory. I let it run for about 20 minutes and got the following error from the main ("alt+f1 for here") screen: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an [sic] hardware error while reading the data. (this may be caused by a hardware failure or a Linux kernel bug) The system is an old P3 450mhz (EDIT: actually it's a celeron, 411Mhz according to memtest86+ v1.11), 128 ram, 16mb video card, 40x cdrom, brand new seagate 40gig HDD. I'm installing mandrake 10.0 (I've been struggling with HDD failure and troubleshooting since 10.0 was released, sadly enough). Is anybody familiar with this problem or have any advice? Thanks. Edited January 15, 2005 by EliteNeophyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I'm not familiar with the error but when you're sure it's not the hardware, that the CD's (md5sum) are good, try to start the instalation in expert mode (hit f1) and try some of the boot options (noacpi, noapic etcect) Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddler Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I'm having the exact same problem on three different computers and two different cds 10.1 gives me the error on all 3 computers and 10.2 LE gives me the error on only 1. I agree that it might be the cds for the 10.1 model but on the 10.2 cds (that work on 2/3 computers) do you think it's a hardware problem (I think it is btw) and if it is how can I diagnose exactly what's hanging the installation up. Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 in most cases, this error indicates a bad cd. however it can also be due to acpi problems, so at the boot prompt in expert mode (as told by devries), type linux noapic nolapic if it still doesn't boot, try disabling "plug&play os" in the bios (if your board supports this). last option would be (just guessing here) to deactivate "memory hole" in the bios and to add at the boot prompt in expert mode e.g. linux mem=128M (if you have 128 mbram, otherwise replace the number accordingly) good luck :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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