On Friday 07 March 2003 8:04 pm, myoddends wrote:
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2669
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> ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-08 02:04
> ------- I posted over on bug 1611 because that's what came up when I did a
> search. I have the same problem except that I have no idea what the kernel
> messages were. In my case, I seriously doubt there are hardware errors on
> my computer. I get the same problem with several different CD drives, and
> trying to install Mandrake RCs are the only place it happens. I did not
> post this error during betas or RC1, because I have an hpt374 ide
> controller and never got close to second stage until RC2.
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> When trying to install 9.1 RC1, I get the following error and then the
> computer just freezes:
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> "Could not uncompress second state ramdisk. This is probably a
> hardware error while reading the data. (This may be caused by a hardware
> failure or a Linux Kernel bug)"
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> The log window shows:
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> * trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdinst_state2.bz2 as a ramdisk
> * reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR
> * unsetting automatic
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> The kernel messages show:
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> <6> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1148956
> <4> hdb: status timeout: status=0xc0 (Busy)
> <4> hdb: status timeout: status=0x00
> <3> hdb: drive not ready for command
> <4> hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> <4> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x00 (Busy)
> <4> hdb: irq timeout: error=0x00
> <4> hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> <4> hdb: irq timeout status=0xc0 (Busy)
> <4> hdb: irq timeout: error=0x00
> <6> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1148960
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> This computer has an ASUS A7N8X motherboard with the integrated
> NVIDIA nForce 2 chipset. It also has an AMD XP 2000 CPU.
> BTW, I get the same errors when trying to install Mandrake 9.0.
> I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed
> but I installed it on my drive using a different computer.
The hardware which has the error in this case is not the cdrom drive it is the cdrom
itself. Try the installation with a new (not already used) cd-rw or cd-r disc.
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