I too had a bad hard drive that caused several unrelated problems on boot
up. I also had memorey parity errors at random times on bootup. I removed
each simm and moved it to another location in hope that it would reseat. No
problems after replacing HD and reseating memory.
- Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Weider
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 9:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot up Error Message
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am having a strange problem. When I boot into Linux, I get a
> > "CRC Error -- System Halted" error when vmlinuz is being loaded. The
> > strange thing is that it only happens sometimes; if I reset the machine
> > 2 or 3 times in a roll, the kernel boots just fine. No error once the
> > kernel got rolling, and no problem running anything including the
> > beautiful KDE. I tried using several different kernel and even compiled
> > the latest 2.2.3 kernel just to test, but the same phenomenon keep
> > happening. What might be the cause here? Could this be
> hardware related?
> > Here's my setup:
> >
> > Cyrix P150+
> > 128MB RAM
> > 1.6 GB IDE HD
> > IDE CDROM
> > Logitech Mouse
> > Matrox Mystique
> >
> > and I am running Linux Mandrake 5.3 with 2.2.3 kernel. Please note that
> > this happens with the 2.0.36 kernel that came with mandrake as well. I
> > can live with this error but it is annoying as hell. Any help
> is greatly
> > appreciated!
> >
> > -JC
>
> I was getting the same error, the problem that caused it in my case was a
> failing HD of the boot section, I fdisked /mbr and did about
> three installs of
> Mandrake before I figured it out. I replaced the drive and have not had a
> problem since.
>
