On Thursday 13 May 2004 04:56 pm, Brock Nanson wrote: [...] > I've got a rather remote Bering box (1.2 I believe) that's gone bad on > me. The user tells me it starts the boot then gets to a point where it > says: > > installing root: gunzip: invalid gzip magic > > As you'd expect, everything following fails because root hasn't been > installed and the kernel eventually panics.
Sounds like it was compressed wrong with gzip on a different computer or the package was backed up on a running system after running for a while. It's a stab in the dark, but both have happened to me in the past. -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
