Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
On Monday 03 March 2003 10:29 pm, jokerman64 wrote: When trying to install 9.1 RC1, I get the following error and then the computer just freezes: I got this exact same error as well 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) Yup The log window shows: * trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdinst_state2.bz2 as a ramdisk * reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR * unsetting automatic The kernel messages show: 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 Even the error message is the same except it complained about dev hdd (my dvd-rom) 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. I have an AMD XP 2000 CPU. Anyway I found a resolution. USE A NEW CD! Did wonders really. I was trying to burn an old (read OLD) cdrw disk because I didn't want to waste my roomates good ones. The installation didn't work and I decided to try with new media installation went perfectly (except for me not being able to change lilo settings at install time). I suggest you try a new cd-r or burning a new disk. I used k3b and a usb phillips 400 series to burn. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. Ok, now i'm confused. i recently used (couple of hours ago) a cd to try and install 9.1 RC2 on a laptop. I didn't get all the way through because the laptop i commandeered wasn't mine and needed tobe used for other purposes. Regardless, on the laptop i did get to an installation screen and got as far as the Update/Install dialog. Fast forward to a couple of minutes ago and i try the same thing on my computer. I get the same bloody error message. Now obviuosly the disk working on one computer (ibm laptop) and not working on another (custom built desktop) isn't a problem of faulty media. this leads me to believe that the kernel is in fact at fault or maybe ACPI support in the kernel. I'm going to try this again with ACPI support disabled and then enabled in BIOS to see what happens. On a very distressing sidenote the botched installation seemed to have somehow messed up CMOS or wherever the bios memory is kept. After hitting the restart button (i was instructed at the console that i could do so) i decided to shut down instead. A couple minutes later i turned on the computer and i had to reset everything in bios. It looked just as it did after i put it together and turned it on for the first time. If i manage to get this to happen again (and i'll try my damndest) i'll file a bug report. But for now i suggest reopening this one in case it was closed because of my previuos reply. -- I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. III: There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. IV: If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to. V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output. -- Norman Augustine
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
oh yeah the cd i used above was a cd-rw. i don't have any more rewritables so i can't test my theory but i think it's something wrong with cd-rws not being read correctly (is that possible?) if not a bios or kernel prob. Hardware is ECS k7s5a motherboard, athlon xp 2000+, 256 mb sdram, geforce 4 128mb-8x, el cheapo 12X-DVD rom and pioneer usb rewriter. I wonder what tyype of hardware donbrock had. -- Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing. -- H.S. Thompson
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
Ok, now i'm confused. i recently used (couple of hours ago) a cd to try and install 9.1 RC2 on a laptop. I didn't get all the way through because the laptop i commandeered wasn't mine and needed tobe used for other purposes. Regardless, on the laptop i did get to an installation screen and got as far as the Update/Install dialog. Well isn't this embarassing. Actually this was the 9.1 rc1 cd that i made earlier. the 9.1 rc2 installation did in fact fail. Fast forward to a couple of minutes ago and i try the same thing on my computer. I get the same bloody error message. Now obviuosly the disk working on one computer (ibm laptop) and not working on another (custom built desktop) isn't a problem of faulty media. the media actually failed on both computers so by my own logic it must have been the disks that was faulty. this leads me to believe that the kernel is in fact at fault or maybe ACPI support in the kernel. I'm going to try this again with ACPI support disabled and then enabled in BIOS to see what happens. failed, failed and failed again. No matter what i change my acpi setting to yhe installations stops at tge same point. On a very distressing sidenote the botched installation seemed to have somehow messed up CMOS or wherever the bios memory is kept. After hitting the restart button (i was instructed at the console that i could do so) i decided to shut down instead. A couple minutes later i turned on the computer and i had to reset everything in bios. It looked just as it did after i put it together and turned it on for the first time. If i manage to get this to happen again (and i'll try my damndest) i'll file a bug report. Not reproduced yet. But for now i suggest reopening this one in case it was closed because of my previuos reply. Scratch that. it was the media that did it. I'll be more careful reporting from memory next time -- What hath Bob wrought?
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
From: jokerman64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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 | | Even the error message is the same except it complained about dev hdd (my dvd-rom) | Try to boot with ide3=nodma Thomas
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 5:48 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: jokerman64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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 | | Even the error message is the same except it complained about dev hdd (my dvd-rom) Try to boot with ide3=nodma Thomas Still no go. I'm pretty sure it's the CDs -- The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch.
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
From: jokerman64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Tuesday 04 March 2003 5:48 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: | From: jokerman64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | 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 | | | | Even the error message is the same except it complained about dev hdd (my | | dvd-rom) | | | Try to boot with ide3=nodma | | | Thomas | Still no go. I'm pretty sure it's the CDs Sorry, I'm remembered wrong... if your cd is 'hda' or 'hdb', boot with ide0=nodma if your cd is 'hdc' or 'hdd', boot with ide1=nodma This actually turns off dma mode on primary/secondary controller... (just to verify that it's not causing problems...) I'll try the RC2 myself tonight on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board that has that nforce2 ide controller. (It has been working fine while running Cooker, but maybe there are some differencies in the BOOT kernel that geves the nforce2 problems) Thomas
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
When trying to install 9.1 RC1, I get the following error and then the computer just freezes: I got this exact same error as well 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) Yup The log window shows: * trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdinst_state2.bz2 as a ramdisk * reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR * unsetting automatic The kernel messages show: 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 Even the error message is the same except it complained about dev hdd (my dvd-rom) 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. I have an AMD XP 2000 CPU. Anyway I found a resolution. USE A NEW CD! Did wonders really. I was trying to burn an old (read OLD) cdrw disk because I didn't want to waste my roomates good ones. The installation didn't work and I decided to try with new media installation went perfectly (except for me not being able to change lilo settings at install time). I suggest you try a new cd-r or burning a new disk. I used k3b and a usb phillips 400 series to burn. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
[Cooker] [Bug 2669] [Installation] New: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk.
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2669 Product: Installation Component: Installation Summary: Could not uncompress second state ramdisk. Version: 1.800 Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P2 AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When trying to install 9.1 RC1, I get the following error and then the computer just freezes: 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) The log window shows: * trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdinst_state2.bz2 as a ramdisk * reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR * unsetting automatic The kernel messages show: 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 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. --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
