invalid compressed format (err=1)
RH7.1
kernel 2.4.18 hi all, I am a linux newbie. I have been attempting to rebuild my 2.4.18 kernel. I am having lots of very strange errors depending on what i select on the make xconfig. The latest error is the following. 'invalid compressed format (err=1)' -- system halted." I guess the error itself explanatory. But what is causing this? I am doing the following steps. recommended by jayakrishnan. make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install copy the image to /boot add entry to lilo.conf rerun lilo Someone has mentioned copying the System.map file to boot but i don't understand why. I am really confused about this kernel building. Depending on which option are set to 'y' or 'm' i get kernek loading errors from 'run out of input data' ( very common ). or The make modules_install generates symbolic link failures on elf.o. What have i done incorrectly? Any help is MOST appreciated. thanks -shameless |
invalid compressed format (err=1)
I just had a bout with this same error myself. I had just put a new heatsink on my 1200 athlon machine. Went to boot into my Gentoo and got:
invalid compressed format (err=1) when trying to uncompress the kernel. Just prior to replacing the heatsink, I had moved /usr from /dev/hde3 to /dev/hdf1, so naturally I thought my error was related to this. Trying to boot to the LiveCD from Gentoo I got the same error. Did some Google searching and everything pointed to bad ram, so I tested all possible configurations of my 3 sticks, same results. I finally decided to remove the cpu to see if I had smeared excess Arctic Silver 3 compound on the CPU, and lo and behold, there was but a scant bit of evidence that the heatsink was even touching the cpu core! I removed the cheap heatsink I had bought and put it's fan on my better heatsink(who's fan was the reason I started this mess), installed the original heatsink and now everything is fine...whew! was I ever happy :) I hope this helps you with your issue. cybertick http://www.linux4newbies.org (needs updated) |
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