On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 08:03, rahul b jain cs student wrote: > Hi, > > I recently started having boot problems on one of my linux workstations. > It looks like a hardware problem. However I needed some advice before I > contact the customer service. > > When I try to boot my machine it gets hanged at various levels of the boot > process, a different level during each boot. e.g: first it displayed there > was an error in some file, next time it hung up saying kernel panic, next time > it hung up immediately after the LILO prompt etc. Thinking it was a kernel > issue, I tried doing a fresh install and I got the following error > messages. > > *************************************************** > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > incomplete literal tree > invalid compressed format (err=1) Freeing initrd memory: 2648K > freed > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock > cramfs: wrong magic > FAT: unable to read boot sector > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02 > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 > *************************************************** > > Does this mean I have a hard disk problem or a motherboard problem ? Or > does it mean something entirely different ? >
Sounds like a RAM problem... Or at least I would eliminate that first. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
