kevmccor Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 I have tried the noapic acpi=off and text installation options. I have 8.2 working well on a Jetway 694TAS socket 370 motherboard, celeron 1.2 Ghz, 36x atapi cdrom. I have tried to install 9.1 and 9.2 and get the following error: invalid compressed format (err=1) Freeing initrd memory: 3031k freed Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 1:03 This happened with 9.1 a while back. I got 9.2 from Mandrake, and am trying to install, but this error stops the show. I have adjusted bios settings as well. Also, an attempt with text install and acpi=off resulted in invalid compressed format (err=2) System Halted. I have another motherboard, a VIA C3M266, but I think this has its own set of problems. Also, I have searched the forum, but haven't found anything on this. Does anyone know what the problem is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 It is either a problem with your hard drive or bad media. Get a utility to do a thorough scan of the drive. Since the problem has sort of happened before, I would look at the hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Make sure plug 'n play is disabled in the bios. Also, 9.1 and 9.2 require 64MB of ram for the install program IIRC; 8.2 only required 32MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Just to double-check, did your install cd's checksum ok with md5um? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 I think he got 9.2 from Mandrake. (And he actually received the order!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmccor Posted November 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Thanks to all for thier replies. I did a bit of looking on google for "invalid compressed format" and, while I did not find any user-friendly explanation, I found enough to indicate there probably was some problem with my cdrom drive. It was an older Shuttle SD-360 36x atapi. I went out and got a Samsung CD-R/RW, put it in, and the installation proceeded from there. I am sending this on my new 9.2 installation. I suppose I really wanted a R/RW cdrom anyway - now I need something to write! Just an added comment. I have never updated the bios on this motherboard, so that may have something to do with the problem. I actually got the intstall process started one time after playing with the ide drive PIO settings in the bios, but I did not have the hard drives hooked up right at the time. After fixing that, the "invalid compression format" error kept repeating, so I just got the new cdrom drive. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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