Initrd/initramfs problem during suse10.2 installation

ph73nt · 01-08-2007, 11:19 AM

Hi folks

I have recently burned suse 10.2 isos (twice and with correct MD5 sums) and have an installation problem. My hardware is PIII 800 with 496 ram and an NVidia GEforce2 graphics card.

I get the following on screen just before PC reboots itself:
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Checking if image is initramfs... it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
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I get this message no matter which installation option I choose (normal, failsafe, noacpi, etc). What's going on and am I going to be able to install this at all?

Many thanks

ankscorek · 01-09-2007, 05:09 AM

try installing on a high end PC...

ph73nt · 01-09-2007, 12:28 PM

Minimum requirements are pentium-I and 256MB ram. I meet those, thanks.

Any ideas? Anybody?

dracuss · 08-09-2008, 07:31 AM

as much as i understood, after the installation is complete, you get this message... and the PC doesn't reboot.
I think that you should try, using your Suse CD, enter recovery mode and build your own initrd. try using mkinitrd command, but only after you deleted the initrd from your HDD.