Hi all,

I have recently started to encounter problems with a pc i have just built. I tried to load mandrake 8.3 ( its the only mandrake I got ) and almost immiediately after about 10 seconds of loading it says.

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at Block 0
Uncompressing.................................................................<3>crc errordone.
Freeing initrd memory 595k freed
KERNEL PANIC: VFC: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03

Then upon loading RH8 I get,

crc error <6> Freeing initrd memory :2864k freed.

Any ideas ???

I thought it may be a hardrive problem but later found that to be wrong.


Thanks in advance...

Mirr

Give us a rundown of the hardware in your box.

try booting from knoppix CD first, it would give an idea if your system is easy to config in linux

Before I list my hardware, this pc did have windows & Linux on it not too long ago. The problem has only just raised its ugly heid.

Graphic: Ge Force2 mmx400 64MB AGP
Sound card: SoundBlaster
Chip: AMD Athlon 1700XT ( i think )
HD: SeaGate 20GB


I had Windows installed and all was fine, then it would not boot ( Blue Screen of Death ) and so on. Then I did a clean install of windows and I got errors straight away, Cabinet files missing ???. I then did the Linux install and got the above errors..


Please help


mirr

I rememberd that my CPU was burned and got lot's of error messages. ZIP/ARJ fail CRC as well.

Are you sure that your CPU and RAM are fine?

All I know is that when I looked at the memory situation in windows it looked fine. I hope it aint the chip or memory, as I just bought the 2 of them less than a year ago

Is there any way of checking the chip situation ? ? ?

Since my first post I have stripped the system down and rebuilt. It made no difference, hmmmm, I then done a RHL8 install command line, linux nodeps and that worked fine. I then formatted again and tried a normal install, Worked fine ? . I am about to format again and try putting windoze back on, before I shrink it and put Linux back on....


Keep in touch.


mirr