crc error system halted

**Dave_Bechtel** · 04-28-2003, 09:34 PM

--This is a long shot, but have you tried switching out the CD drive?

Originally Posted by prospero

tried 3.2, got a different error than the crc error:

invalid compressed format (err=1)

I keep crapping out right before the it goes into auto-configuration. i'm just about ready to give up on ever getting knoppix going on this machine. does any one have anything that i could try?

**goba** · 04-28-2003, 10:01 PM

...or laser lens cleaning?

**rickenbacherus** · 04-28-2003, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by prospero

hmm, no i didn't really change anything in the bios. compaq bios is pretty crappy, everything is "automatic" and not really open to modification. it does know that there is no hard drive and seems to recognize the cd and floppy as the only boot devices. is there something you think i should be looking for in the bios?

I've heard alot of bad things about Compaq's and their lousy BIOS. Bummer you can't make too many changes. It is quite common to disable Plug n Play when running Linux. Also if you can, disable the automatic assignment of IRQ's. Turn off Auto Power Mgmt. If I think of anything else I'll post back.

**prospero** · 04-29-2003, 06:33 PM

hey guys,

still no luck. i've tried three different cdrom drives, each of which works with knoppix in another machine, so the cdrom doesn't seem to be the problem.

i also tried to disable auto IRQ assignment, but wasnt able to. i tried turning of pci bus mastering, and instead of hanging at loading vmlinuz it goes through the boot routine, but hangs at the auto-configuration portion, right when tux should show up at the top.

i've let it run for a while, just to be sure it was hanging and not just taking a really long time, but it is definitely hanging.

i've tried just about everything i can think of, maybe this machine just wasn't meant to run knoppix.

**rickenbacherus** · 04-29-2003, 09:04 PM

My last guess is leaving pci bus mastering disabled and then booting with failsafe It looks like turning pci bus mastering off got you a little farther anyway. That's at least somewhat promising. Maybe try removing your NIC & soundcard. It looks like there is some device Knoppix no likey.

gluck