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In article <5bicmv$3qv@minkirri.apana.org.au> abo@minkirri.apana.org.au (Donovan Baarda) writes:
>motk@powerup.com.au wrote:
>: Mike Lord (lordm@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>
>: [... regarding installation difficulties]
>
>: >: "LILO BOOT:
>: >: Starting Linux:...
>: >: Decompressing Linux files"
>: >
>: >: Then it comes up with an error message that says 
>: >: crc error
>: >: system halted
>
>: This sounds like a crook boot disk. You can just use rawrite to make
>: another but there's an easier way with RH 4.0. Just boot DOS, go the cdrom
>: and enter the dosutils directory. Type autoboot. Done!
>
>Nope, not a crook boot disk (not in my case anyway). The very same boot
>disk worked fine on several other machines. I guess it could have been a
>crook floppy drive, but it works OK to mount floppys when I've booted of
>the HDD.
>
>The reason I thought it may have something to do with 640B bugs, is I read
>somewhere that the bug can manifest itself when simultaniously accessing
>the FDD and HDD...
>
>ABO



	Nope what is happening here is that vmlinuz is unable to find your
	System.map file.

	You can setup in your lilo.conf file for you HD boot to read something
	like:

	map=/boot/System.map

	A word of warning though, you'll get the above message you you cannot 
	locate the System.map file or you are pointing to the wrong one 
	(ie: another Kernel build).

	Also to build a floppy that boots:

	dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage of=/dev/fd0
	rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1

	(Where /dev/hda1 is the partition of your / partition for Linux!).

	Hope this helps...

	Regards,

	Matt.


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