>After botching a kernel upgrade, I tried to make a new boot disk
>so I could get back into my system and reconfigure. I
>keep getting this error: "crc error" just after it starts
>expanding linux from the boot disk.
Hi Scott. I had the exact same problem as you. Mine was caused by a
bad hard disk. Probably munged it due to "botched" kernel upgrade or
something. It eventually did not even work with DOS. Note that the
CRC error is very confusing and appears misplaced. It occurs when
booting off floppy, but it has nothing to do with the floppy. I
sniffed around for hours with a hair dryer (trying to get the floppy
or the controller to fail), and even ended up replacing the floppy
drive. That did not help. A loud screech and bang from the hard
drive necessitated its replacement and solved the problem. Note that
the strings command executed on the kernel image will find this
annoying message, so in principle, at least, you can hunt it down in
the kernel source and force a more informative error message to be
printed.
Eric
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