Hi all,
Big problem , my FC5 has just started hanging on boot. It fires up , gets to the “uncompressing linux bit then comes to a screaming halt with the error :-

invalid compressed format (err = 1)

-- system halted

I googled around but this seems to be a problem that turns up with initial installations
and on installing new hardware. This set up has been running fine for some months and i have made no recent changes nor installed any new hardware or software.
(booting with grub)

If it comes down to re installing the kernal ,how do I go about that ? ,nother learning curve.Hope I never get to the top of the mountain :-)

Also , if I boot with the rescue disk I can run a shell and every thing is still there.Is It poss. to start x windows/gnome from here and if so how ?

Any suggestions or have I lost the lot ?
Thanks in advance.
Gaspode
Desktop PC
700 coppermine Intal cpu
Fedora Core5
booting with grub

It certainly sounds like vmlinuz got zapped, but that is certainly not the only explanation.

Lazy way out: Install Fedora 6

You might be able to get a kernel image from Fedora and just drop it in.